What type of owl (1 Viewer)

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edstrong

New member

• Mar 28, 2017

• #1

Advice please. At last there's an owl nesting in the barn owl box I put up in my field last year. I've caught it on a trailcam so here's the link to the video. The owl box is 60 cm wide and the entrance hole 12 wide to give you a sense of scale. I'm not sure what the owl is though as it doesn't look like (or as big as) the barn owl that is hunting in the field (and this owl heads off in another direction when it's caught its prey). The camera is operating in night-time infra-red mode hence the slightly odd image.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_A3gcAS2rAcd0ZOZlhfZXgxSTg

Thanks for your considered opinion!

 

rockfowl

Mark Andrews

• Mar 28, 2017

• #2

Barn Owl, nice!

Oh, welcome to the forum!

 

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osprey123

Well-known member

• Mar 28, 2017

• #3

Hi Edstrong,
Looks like you've got yourself a Barn Owl in your Barn Owl box.

 

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edstrong

New member

• Mar 28, 2017

• #4

That's great news and thanks for the quick responses. I didn't think it was big enough to be a barn owl, and doesn't seem as big as the barn owl that hunts in the field (shown here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_A3gcAS2rAcblNtWFVkai0yUzg), so there might be more than one!

 

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Sangahyando

Well-known member

• Mar 28, 2017

• #5

In my experience though, flying owls at night look bigger than they actually are - at least LEOs, probably de to their long wings. Barn Owls are similarly proportioned, so it probably applies to them too.

 

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edstrong

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• Apr 3, 2017

• #6

It's definitely a barn owl! I was walking past the nest box during the day and it flew out right in front of me. I also noticed that a pair of crows were going in and out, and spotted them one afternoon chasing the barn owl out. I wasn't sure about interfering but made the decision to check inside the box, to find a huge nest of twigs, grass, wool, obviously not made by the barn owl. I cleared this out and the crows have gone away, and the barn owl is back and much happier:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_A3gcAS2rAca0c0UWxXZXpYQkE

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Apr 3, 2017

• #7

edstrong said:

a pair of crows

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More likely Jackdaws; they nest in holes, crows don't :t: