A while back I blogged about a pair of Tawny Owls I had in a box near my home at the farm. Although I haven't checked the box my guess is that the female is either sitting on eggs by now or they've got chicks. You can hear them calling most nights and I'd love to get a bit of night time footage of them.
The wife bought me a trail camera for christmas this year, and a birding friend of mine told me if you put two perches in the ground about three feet apart with one lower than the other then there would be a good chance that one of the Owls would land on it. The camera would go on the lower perch because he said the Owls will prefer the taller perch.
So I did just that, I thought it a bit of a long shot but you never know I might have a bit of luck.
trail cam set up for the owls
In the picture above you can see my set up and you can just make out the Owls nest box in the first tall tree.
I waited for about a week to look to see if I'd been lucky and I couldn't believe my eyes the owl had landed on the perch. The clip isn't very long as I had my camera set to take just twenty seconds of footage but I'm well pleased with it.
Here's a picture of one of the Tawny's sat at the box I wonder if it was this individual that was the first to sit on my perch and be videoed.
tawny owls at the entrance hole
I was well pleased to get the footage even though it was rather short, I've increased the length of the clips and set the camera back up again to hopefully have some more footage of these cracking birds.
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