During the 2023/24 winter season (Nov-Feb) 13 barn owls were encountered roosting at our RAS nest boxes.
Six of which were new ringed: All had fledged in 2023, and had likely dispersed
into our area
Seven were subsequent encounters:
Including 2 controls from Devon (234km) and Gloucester (68km) ringed
as chicks in 2021 and 2023 respectively.
Plus retraps of birds fledged from RAS boxes in 2019 and 2021
As well as PIT tagging the 6 new birds, tags were added to 3 of the
7 re-encounters (the other 4 already being tagged). Hopefully we'll get readings of all these birds during the
upcoming RAS season.
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One of the new ringed females was another well marked bird exhibiting orangy breast feathers as shown here:
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