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It is great to be able to share our new document on ‘Improving Habitats for Barn Owls’ which Ulster Wildlife have created to provide advice to landowners and farmers to take action for #barnowls in Northern Ireland. You can access the guidance here - ulsterwildlife.org/sites/default/…

A wonderful overview of various #owl species surveyed during @PARTRIDGE_NSR project monitoring on their lowland England demonstration site, an area where targeted measures have been implemented to retore #farmland biodiversity.

Some good news to start the week...
The The Owl Box Initiative team from The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust have ringed several broods across the #FarmerClusters this season (under licence), here are the latest two Barn Owl chicks. We are excited to hear where they are next recorded when they fledge! BTO

100 Barn Owl nests in Cork!! An incedible & record-breaking milestone reached yesterday when we confimed the 100th nest in Cork!! We don't want to stop there, please report info on Barn Owls bit.ly/barnowl-survey Cork Barn Owl Survey supported by @CorkCoCo & @npwsBioData #LBAF

My conservation work enables me to engage others with nature. This young lad and his family are from Ukraine and are being hosted in the UK by a local farmer. He loves birds so he and his family joined us seeing Barn Owls being ringed. It made my year seeing them so happy.

Martin Down Farmer Supercluster The Owl Box Initiative The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust GWCT Science This from last evening:

Fantastic to see Ryan Burrell..

..and to highlight the hard work by #volunteers across the 🇬🇧 monitoring #nest boxes/ringing young (under licence), to collect data on productivity, survival & movements, to help understand #conservation measures needed to support these species👏

The Owl Box Initiative continues to monitor our #owlbox nest boxes across Martin Down Farmer Supercluster (conducted under licence GWCT Science). Great result and one happy farming family report from 3 owl boxes, they have 1 box with 6 eggs 2 other boxes with 3 chicks each! #FarmingWithNature #Conservation

One of our next-door neighbours...
#Barnowl #naturerecovery #makespacefornature #FarmingwithNature
📷 #OlyBerriman

One size fits owl

#thicktrunktuesday

Hawk and Owl Trust Trees etc. Barn Owl Trust Action Oak Raptor Persecution UK The Tree Council Mark Avery The Owl Box Initiative Arboricultural Association Team4Nature Oldtree British Birds Woodland Trust🌳

We have chicks and adults are working hard I don’t think it’s a vole year particularly ?lush growth , wind ,cold makes it difficult to catch them to ! Barn Owl Trust The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Defra UK Jodie Case Mammal Society SuffolkWildlifeTrust

Corker of a morning over border just into Oxon on early season box checking. 3 active Barn Owl nests, 2 Kestrel nests and a single Little Owl nest. Lots to come back for in June when we hope the 21 eggs will have successfully hatched🤞👍🍾 see thread for exciting backstories …

We are so pleased and thankful to be a part of the The Owl Box Initiative led by The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust across our Farmer Clusters

The The Owl Box Initiative continues to monitor #barnowl nest boxes across various #FarmerClusters .

The first round of #nest box monitoring has begun, using a mounted GoPro to reduce disturbance.

(All nest box monitoring is conducted under licence)

Even if Barn Owls aren’t present at a site, it’s often easy to tell if they’ve been there 🕵️‍♀️
Signs of occupation include:
- Pellets
- Droppings
- Nest and roost debris
- Feathers
- Dead adults
- Dead owlets
- Smell
- Small mammal remains
👀 barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-facts…

Brilliant bit of footage don’t think the female would of won on her own or unguarded chicks ! Rab 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 barry woodhouse BTO Jodie Case Barn Owl Centre🦉

Barn Owl hovering from last night, real time and slow motion ! very pleased with this shot (MF)

I’ve waited along time for a shot like this 👌🏻😍 #barnowl #sonyfx6 #ukwildlife #naturephotography #owls #sony200600 #slowmotion #barnowl s #wildlfevideo #sonyalpha #sonyprofessional

Been a busy winter - one of our favourite sessions was in March helping @bbowt Young Rangers project at College Lake Nature Reserve. Rangers had a go at making a Barn Owl box and we had great fun dissecting Barn Owl pellets looking for prey mammal skeletons 👍 great fun …

In 2022, various independent #barnowl monitoring groups across the UK, checked 5,404 potential barn owl nest sites.

From this work, the new report 'State of the UK Barn Owl Population 2022' is now available on the Barn Owl Trust website.

➡️ bit.ly/3nRgX4r
📸Andy Chilton