Fifth egg - 17th June 2013

The fifth egg appeared at 11:00am on Monday 17th June

Fourth Egg - 14th June

Fourth egg appeared today at 06:00 14th June - this is a slightly shorter gap than the previous ones, so it may be the final egg of the clutch.

Third Egg - 11th June

The third egg was laid at 8pm on Tuesday 11th June, so all three eggs have been laid at a regular three day interval.

Second egg - 8th June

The second egg was laid around 7:30pm on 8th June.  This is a three day interval since the first, wheras the normal interval is 48 hours.   This may be as a result of shortage of food and being out of condition to produce eggs.

June 5th - First Egg

Having only updated the blog for 2013 and stated that we hope that this pair will still breed this year, they have gone on to lay their first egg - at 21:15 this evening.   .......... perhaps they were just waiting for us to take an interest!   

Welcome back for 2013

Welcome back for 2013

Apologies for not posting anything yet for 2013, but we hope to provide regular updates from now on.  

The story so far for 2013.

Lincolnshire's Barn Owls have been severely affected by a combination of a very prolonged cold winter and a lack of food due to a crash in both the short-tailed field voles and wood mice.  We are lucky to have any owls in this box with the webcam.   At least they have survived this period, though have been noted resorting to eating earthworms and frogs earlier.  The female spends much of her time in the box and is occasionally joined by the male.  We are hoping that they will still breed this year.

Alan