Link to January 2022 to end of February 2023 thread
Live stream from North Fambridge, Essex: https://www.essexwt.org.uk/wildlife/webcams/barn-owl
In 2022, four Barn Owlets, deemed to be 3 females and 1 male (the youngest), successfully fledged.
Here they are at their ringing day on 7.7.22
Hopefully, the resident pair will successfully breed in the nest box again this season.
Both are in
Did she hear something?
She had left
Waiting
The female returned
Goodnight.
Still in and resting, though Mrs has occasional preen
Mutual lovey dovey
after lots of loving he leaves
Just happened to be passing as she arrived...
getting ready to receive himself.
and he obliges...
and he is off again..
Is she still hopeful he will be back soon.
nope she leaves as well.
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
The female is back
Apart from an occasional preen, the female has spent her time resting in the same position - no visits from the male
An overhead wing stretch before leaving
ENS. I'm later this evening but on chat, at there are some pics of the female in, then mating at 20:55 with possibly a rogue male - 'she had a little tug of his wing before he left.'
I'm unsure if it was our resident male or not - wing markings looks slightly different also with the female's reaction to having a peck at him. On the other hand, his right eye wasn't fully open when mating...
Edit: I've just enlarged the mating pic (and subsequent one posted on chat). I can't recall seeing a dark round patch of feathers on the male's shoulder area before when mating - so no, I don't believe that it was our resident male, IMO.