We have been putting the Barn Owl circuits off this year. We have been fortunate to have owlets at the Hawk and Owl Trust, having ringed 2 Tawny young earlier in the year and one box of 2 Barn Owl owlets already ringed with a second pair's brood to be ringed shortly. But so many people have had boxes with no sign of breeding attempts that we decided to leave it until later in the hope that breeding may be delayed due to the warm weather in March followed by a rather wet spell.
We checked 15 sites (some have 2 or 3 boxes in close proximity), and were please to ring 3, 2 & 4 from 3 boxes. Another box has 4 smaller young that will need a call back.
We still have more boxes to check so there may be more.
Total: 9 (1)
Barn Owl adult - 1 (1)
Barn Owl pullus - 9