Tawny Owls 2023

Tawny Owl (adult female)

A monitoring round of our Tawny Owl boxes in the Marlow area this week revealed four Tawny Owl nests with chicks.

This makes as good a result as we've had in previous years.

Tawny Owls usually start egg-laying by end-March, earlier than both Little and Barn Owls.

Update: single chicks were subsequently ringed at each nest. One of the adult females had been ringed in 2016, and is estimated now to be in its tenth calendar year.

2023 nesting season underway

Barn Owls at one of our camera nest boxes laid their first egg on 2nd May.

This is a relatively late date, so we'd expect to find some other local pairs will have started before this.