Link to 2021 thread
Live stream: https://www.essexwt.org.uk/wildlife/webcams/barn-owl
As with the 2020 season, barn owls did not use the box for breeding in 2021, will this year be different?
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In answer to that question, yes!
9 eggs laid: Incubation period is 30-31 days
Hatches:
1st chick - 21.5.21 2nd chick - 23.5.22 3rd chick - 24.5.22 4th chick - 26.5.22 5th chick - 29.5.22 6th chick - 2.6.22 7th chick - ??? 8th chick - 5.6.22
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Oh, good timing! I just checked the cam to see mum deliver prey!
There's a pic on chat that shows the smallest owlet downing prey at 22:29
The owlet can't be hungry, it was picking it up then placing it on the flooring again
I wonder what they're talking about? lol
Mum delivered another. She had moved the other prey item
When she had left, the biggest owlet on the right had prey in its beak. The one to its right (our left) snatched the prey from it
The chick with its back to the cam was downing it
So very sweet
Thank you for the lovely vids, Wendy
Mum was preening the youngest chick
Little one then did a poop wiggle! lol