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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.

Spring at Thorp Perrow.Lindsay.

This was taken coming back from Blackpool on Sunday, you can see the snow on the hills. Elsie.

Stone wheel at the entrance to The Peak National Park in the Peak District. Karen, Stoke.

Baby goats resting in the sunshine at Birdworld. Bec.

Were They waiting for a Bus?? Lovely Statue at Rufford Country Park. Judy.

The Barn Owl Trust have been monitoring a Barn Owl nest site in Cornwall, since October last year, so that this year we could broadcast a nesting site. Barn Owls have nested in a nest box supplied by the Trust in a Barn at the location for a number of years. They have used one Barn to nest in during the nesting season and another close by during the Autumn and Winter.

A new bespoke nest box was constructed by the Trust fitted with an infra red camera, to give the best possible views inside the new nest box. All the wiring and the new nest box were installed into the nesting barn in the Autumn of last year, so that the Barn Owls could hopefully get use to seeing it and hopefully accept it for this years nesting.

The was always the chance that the Barn Owls would not use the new nest box. I don’t know about the Barn Owl Trust, but I was getting a little concerned that they may not like the new box and decide go else where to nest. Last week I got a phone call from the Trust telling me that the Barn Owls had started to use the the new nest box and were seen mating.

On Tuesday next we are hoping to start broadcasting from the nest site on our internal system to make sure that all is working as it should. If it is we should be live on the website within a week.

There will be two cameras at the nest site location. One in the nest box and one outside so that we can see the Barn Owls going back and forward to feed the Owlets when they hatch. A lot of work has gone in to this new project by the Barn Owl Trust and the owner of the property that the webcam will be broadcasting from. As long as all goes as it promises to be a great new webcam.

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