Barn Owl - This is Your Life

Whilst unsuccessfully searching for Long-eared Owls last Sunday evening, Don Pritchett and I caught a local Barn Owl for which we now have an interesting life history:

• 2014 – ringed as chick at Gamston, Nottingham
• 2016 – bred and reared 3 young ringed in Orston
• 2017 – bred and reared 2 young ringed in Orston
• 2018 – bred with 6 small chicks/eggs (next check was delayed so not sure if she failed, but may explain move in 2019)
• 2019 – caught twice breeding at Elton Park by another ringer
• November 2019 - netted in Orston

As is often the case, we tend to know a bit more about the females as we catch more regularly in nestboxes.

Whilst out we also noted hundreds of thrushes roosting in the hedges, and several Woodcock and Snipe were nearby.

Jim