Blue House Farm Barn Owls January 2022 to end of February 2023 (c) Essex Wildlife Trust

Sandra, what a wonderful time we enjoyed learning at Cornwall, with Matt passing on all his knowledge, which you my lovely have been able to retain.

Whatever we will just have to keep watching and clicking.

Yes, we learnt so much observing the comings and goings, not only inside the nest box but in the barn too!
Absolutely, we can't alter whatever occurs with this little family, Kate :)

Awh! that Mothers tender care, look at those wings wrapped around them, perhaps she knows like all teenagers they will soon fly the nest 

Ohh, how sweet is that!

At least 2 prey items on the flooring

Two eggs? 1 clearly on view, end of another to its right?

Reports/pics on chat show that chick #8(?) hatched at 22:34

Now I'm seriously confused as the dried contents of the badly marked egg (split in the front of the pic) were eaten my mum earlier today (as reported/shown on chat). Egg #9 (or chick #8) would have been at 33 days of incubation today and, as there is one more egg under mum (as shown in the pic on chat with the hatching chick), which number is it?

Morning all,
Another scenario: Could it be that the marked egg was not #1 but one that somehow got damaged and a growing chick passed away inside it, therefore leaving the first one still under her now?
Pics I took earlier...

Dates from laying to hatching don't add up correctly if we still have a viable egg.

Bless and Thank you, for trying to keep tabs on dates, wonder if the Trust iil do a blog at end of Season so we can compare?

Is this the one that had the black dot.?

Taken at same time.