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We have put up a Barn Owl nest box today…

We have put up a Barn Owl nest box today. Our barn that we converted into cottages has got Owl Holes at either end, they would have been there since the barn was built over a hundred years ago, to encourage Barn Owls that would help keep vermin down . Unfortunately they have never been used by Barn Owls. Doves, Sparrow Hawks and other Birds have nested in the loft of the building. We put boxes into the loft when we converted it, hoping that they would encourage a Barn Owl as a roost, but since we have lived at Denbury we have never seen one. The Box we have put up is sited in a modern barn, where there is vermin. At this time of year, this years young will be looking for their own territory and hopefully if one sees the new nest box when hunting, it will use it.

We have also left quite a lot of rough grass land around the farm, in the paddock where the Badger camera is, and other areas to encourage voles, the Barn Owls main diet. As you can see on the webcams, we have our fair share of voles.

We have got a site in Cornwall that we hope to show Barn Owls nesting next year. A new nest box is being made to accommodate a camera to go into the barn that they nested in this year. The new nest box needs to be in the barn by the end of the year to give the Owls the chance of getting use to it. As long as they do get use to the new box and with a bit of luck we will be broadcasting the nesting.

Yesterday we had a person who is a lot more knowledgeable on birds than my self, visit the farm. Whilst walking around the farm a flock of Rooks had been disturbed from the rookery in the woods, the person pointed out a Peregrine Falcon that had disturbed the Birds. We thought that we had seen a Peregrine earlier in the year.

Karen, the Council are obliged to dispose of dead animals on the Highway. They also have a time limit to how long they should collect them by once reported to them. If dead animals are found on private land, the landowner is responsible. Other than the young Badger that we found dead by the house earlier in the year, after what must have been caused by two Badgers fighting, we have never seen any dead wild animals.

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