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Monday, 8 October 2012
Hope the Buggers use them after all the effort!
Put 2 Barn Owl and 2 Little Owl boxes up today with Clive,got another 3 Barn Owl boxes left to go up,not sure where yet! hopefully the Maerdy farm area.
Hope you don't mind me making a slight technical point but I would suggest the barn owl box is positioned on the cross member below the brackets. Young barn owls can then walk onto the beam and then back into the safety of the box when required. If the box remains in its current position the young will jump down onto it. Obviously they then risk falling to the ground (and being predated) and/ or can't make it back into the box should 'danger' arise.....and then risk falling in an attempt to do so (and being predated).
There's a great Natural England technical paper on barn owl conservation/ positioning of nest boxes/ ecology etc, might be worth googling it.
Apart from that (and don't forget to clean the box out in the winter!), a prize for conservation effort of the year awaits you both at this year's curry (sponsored this year by the Barn Conversion Society!).
5 comments:
Here`s a tip. Move the ladder back- it`s too close!
Great stuff lads,should be some takers for those in the near future.
Well done both.
Hope you don't mind me making a slight technical point but I would suggest the barn owl box is positioned on the cross member below the brackets. Young barn owls can then walk onto the beam and then back into the safety of the box when required. If the box remains in its current position the young will jump down onto it. Obviously they then risk falling to the ground (and being predated) and/ or can't make it back into the box should 'danger' arise.....and then risk falling in an attempt to do so (and being predated).
There's a great Natural England technical paper on barn owl conservation/ positioning of nest boxes/ ecology etc, might be worth googling it.
Apart from that (and don't forget to clean the box out in the winter!), a prize for conservation effort of the year awaits you both at this year's curry (sponsored this year by the Barn Conversion Society!).
Good work Mitch, just remember to check them :-)
Great show of initiative - hope you get results!
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