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
Not sure if this was a food drop or scavenge of the floor.
Only three showing clearly, not sure if fluffy baby is distinguishable from the others now?
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Still only three but think front right could be the youngest as can see some baby fluff still, good to see they're not so hot today!
THree in this morning ,think one with back to us ,has prey.and has the lens been cleaned?
Morning Wendy and Kate
I took this before going to bed last night. Youngest, 2nd from the left. Prey? on the flooring
Strange behaviour by the one with prey, leaving it then foraging along the front for more prey?? Lens does look clearer when they are still!
With the heat they're enduring, its hardly surprising with the strange behaviour.
Even in our garden everything is far from normal.
Now I'm a little lost, and following three separate threads I do sometimes loose who's who LOL, was there four owlets or three in this one?
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Earlier looked like only Two, but third was tucked in corner.
One found a vole,plus poss another lying here, then decides there is better prey in front corner, and middle bird trys to hassle in.