CHECKING IN ON THE TAWNY'S

Last December with the help of my good lady Wife I put a trail camera up near where my regular Tawny Owl site is. I explained in a previous post that they had moved from a nestbox that I had built into a natural site in the form of a tree hole. The tree hole was exposed after a Winter storm had brought down a very large branch that had exposed the large hole which the Owls have readily taken to.

I don't like to  disturb them to much but every so often I like to see if they're still using the site and see what kind of condition they're in. 

I left the camera up for about two weeks until I decided to retrieve it. I brought my camcorder and my own DSLR camera to catch a bit of the action if they were to come out while we were there. After setting up the Wife kindly took the trail cam down and I stood there camera in hand and camcorder at the ready.

They came storming out so fast that I only managed to rattle off a few shots that were disappointingly a little out of focus but at least the camcorder got a bit of excellent footage of them emerging from the tree hole, I've included a bit of trail cam footage that I edited onto the clip.

the first tawny owl 

Here's a couple more clips from the trail cam, I had to zoom in a little on the computer but they still came out quite well.

 

I was very pleased that they were still there and both birds looked in excellent condition.

Let's hope they successfully breed once again this year as I for one love having them around.