Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
Morning all. (Slurp).
The bran wols, Speicher, both appeared to fledge, in the sense that they were absent from the nest box on a later check and haven't yet been seen dead anywhere.
There are still bran wols flying about in the area, but I haven't had a good enough look at any of them to see whether they're juveniles (and so probably the fledged youngsters) or parents.
Wols have a habit of getting sucked into the backdraft behind large lorries as they hunt over road verges (that's the wols hunting... not the lorries), and then getting clouted by the next vehicle. I travel the roads where this is likely to happen to my owls, and haven't yet seen any carcasses, so on the whole I think that's good news.
I also spent quite some time lurking with my camera and long lens in the hope of photographing the adults, but no joy.
(I should add that ringing barn owls, and visiting their nests, requires a special schedule 1 license. Visiting or photographing a nest without such a license is a crime).
The bran wols, Speicher, both appeared to fledge, in the sense that they were absent from the nest box on a later check and haven't yet been seen dead anywhere.
There are still bran wols flying about in the area, but I haven't had a good enough look at any of them to see whether they're juveniles (and so probably the fledged youngsters) or parents.
Wols have a habit of getting sucked into the backdraft behind large lorries as they hunt over road verges (that's the wols hunting... not the lorries), and then getting clouted by the next vehicle. I travel the roads where this is likely to happen to my owls, and haven't yet seen any carcasses, so on the whole I think that's good news.
I also spent quite some time lurking with my camera and long lens in the hope of photographing the adults, but no joy.
(I should add that ringing barn owls, and visiting their nests, requires a special schedule 1 license. Visiting or photographing a nest without such a license is a crime).
