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UK Barn Owl population – News updates

UK Barn Owl population – News updates

Current UK Barn Owl population updates. March 2020 By mid-March we had received two reports of egg-laying; one from the west and one from the east coast of Scotland. This is at least a month earlier than the average First Egg-laid Date for the southwest of England, so...
Wildlife Diary 2015

Wildlife Diary 2015

December 2015 Three fresh pellets and some whitewash on the stones below the Kestrel access that originally looked like Barn Owl pellets from a distance were soon re-identified as Kestrel once they had dried out a little and closer views were obtained. This is the...

Wildlife Diary 2014

December 2014 A damp start to the month, the temperature dropping below freezing on some nights and predominately northerly winds. Despite this the grass is continuing to grow slowly, good news for the voles living in the litter layer and everything that eats them! By...

State of the UK Barn Owl population 2013

April 2014 We all know that 2013 was an extremely poor year for Barn Owls. This prompted the Barn Owl Trust to collate results from 21 independent Barn Owl monitoring groups around the UK and pull them together. The publication ‘State Of The UK Barn Owl...

Wildlife Diary 2013

December 2013 A group of ten Plymouth University student volunteers visited on 4th, and tackled scrub along Corner Wood and North Park hedgerows. As always, good progress was made. Some white splashes and a small Barn Owl pellet were found around the wildlife tower on...