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A Busy Week!
Well, I am glad British Summer time is finally here…. looking out of the window, it is a very grey day and pouring with rain! I have had...
Mar 29, 2015

Stow Maries Heaven!
If you are someone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook, you will know that last weekend was a very special weekend! I travelled down to...
Jun 20, 2014
Wet & windy and my barn owls disappear
I was very excited last Sunday night, when my barn owl pair spent over an hour in the box together and there was lots if interaction and...
Feb 8, 2014


Barn Owl Update
With January just about over, I am thrilled to say that my barn owls continue to be regular visitors in the box! It has been about 3...
Jan 31, 2014


More Barn Owl Visits … with pictures! :o)
Well, it has been quite a week and the visits to my box have been regular and actually increasing! The pair have spent up to half an hour...
Jan 19, 2014
My Barn Owl Dream Unfolds
I can hardly believe it was only Sunday I put up my barn owl box. The visits have gradually been increasing, with both coming to the nest...
Jan 16, 2014
All Worth it……An Barn Owl Early Visitor!
After all the traumas of the weekend, I got up this morning before work to check the cameras. I knew there was really very little chance...
Jan 13, 2014


Incredible Barn Owl Visits and a Nest Box Dilemma
I have had a kestrel box mounted on my neighbour’s barn, at the end of my garden for several years now and, although nothing has actually...
Jan 12, 2014


Barn Owls, EcoBuild and Chicks!
Sometimes a week goes so fast, you can’t quite believe that so much has happened…. this week has been one of those and it is nice today...
Mar 10, 2013


Georgina’s Owls
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from the Staffs Barn Owl Trust, who I have been involved with over the last year. They asked...
Aug 27, 2012


School Nest Box Joy!
For Science week, I was asked to run some sessions in the school for whom I set up a nest box a month or so ago. The school were doing...
Mar 16, 2012


Barn Owl Pellets + 2 neices = Hours of fun!!
I have had my two nieces staying with me and with the weather pretty dire outside, we needed an indoor activity. I have been waiting for...
Dec 29, 2011


Staffordshire Barn Owl Action Group
Yesterday, I went to chat to the volunteer member of the B.O.A.G for Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, as I am interested in getting...
Dec 9, 2011


The joy of photographing birds of prey
These photos are part of a project I have been involved with, helping Kevin Bromley with ideas for his new Bird of Prey Photography...
Sep 4, 2011


Bushnells set up at Woodcock location
I returned to the location where I caught some still of woodcock on the Bushnell and set both of them up again. I set the HD Bushnell up...
Feb 25, 2011
Second Barn Owl Box up!!!
You may remember a while ago, I said that I had two barn owl boxes to put up. I had bought one and a local farmer, who was really...
Jan 8, 2011


I see a barn owl and short-eared owl!
On Wednesday, a friend and I drove over to a site not too far from me where there had been some reported sightings of three of Britain’s...
Dec 23, 2010


Barn owl nestbox now in place!
Over the last month or so, I have been investigating the possibililty of barn owls in my area. I have spoken to local land owners. The...
Nov 14, 2010
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