A first outing of the year for owl trainee DW. After all the drama in April when the long standing resident Tawny Owl pair at Hawk and Owl Trust, Sculthorpe, were ousted from their 'wired for video' box by another pair not long before their clutch was due to hatch, another occupied box was confirmed only this week. A chick had been seen and looked quite large, so today the box was checked.
There were actually two well grown owlets in the box that has been up for 15 years or so, but not actually monitored since before we began ringing there. A third box was confirmed as being used as a daytime roost
Tawny Owlet siblings
The smaller of the pair
There was a lot of detritus in the boxes and they will be cleaned out later in the year.
Total: 2
Tawny Owl - 2