Barn Owl Live - A live stream from a Barn Owl box on the Somerset Levels, UK

Описание: A live stream from a Barn Owl box on the Somerset Levels.

Just a reminder. This is a wild, none intervention Barn Owl box. We would appreciate it if the location was kept secret. Too many people seem to already know where this box is located.

Barn Owls exhibit a brood reduction strategy characterized by asynchronous hatching and facultative siblicide, which functions as a form of bet-hedging in unpredictable environments.
By initiating incubation with the first egg laid, hatching occurs sequentially, resulting in a size and developmental gradient among siblings.
Parental food allocation often favours the older, more competitive nestlings, thereby increasing the probability that at least one offspring will survive.

As such, we may see the last chicks to hatch, not survive. This is nature and happens in almost every Barn Owl box across the world.

Below are the various important dates relating to this box.

2025 - Chicks
06/08/25 - Fourth chick fledged.
27/07/25 - Third chick fledged.
24/07/25 - Second chick fledges.
23/07/25 - First of the chicks fledges.
12/06/25 - Chick #6 sadly died.
20/06/25 - Chick #5 passed.

2025 - Hatchings
25/05/25 - First chick hatches
29/05/25 - Second chick hatches
31/05/25 - Third chick hatches
02/06/25 - Fourth chick hatches
04/06/25 - Fifth chick hatches
08/06/25 - Sixth chick hatches

2025 - Eggs
24/04/25 - First egg laid
27/04/25 - Second egg laid
29/04/25 - Third egg laid
02/05/25 - Fourth egg laid
04/05/25 - Fifth egg laid
07/05/25 - Sixth egg laid.

Many thanks for our lovely moderator team and subscribers who's constant vigilance and time stamping make this stream possible!

Somerset Barn Owl Live Facebook Page
  / somersetbarnowl  

Box provided by the Hawk & Owl Trust as part of the Adopt A Box scheme.
https://hawkandowltrust.org/
  / hawkandowltrust  

Previous years activity.

2024 - Hatchings
05/05/24 - First chick hatches (am)
05/05/24 - Second chick hatches (pm)
08/05/24 - Third chick hatches
10/05/24 - Fourth chick hatches
13/05/24 - Fifth chick hatches
We're not expected the last egg to hatch, as we think it was the first laid and overdue.

2024 - Eggs
29/03/24 - First egg laid
01/04/24 - Second egg laid
04/04/24 - Third egg laid
06/04/24 - Fourth egg laid
08/04/24 - Fifth egg laid
11/04/24 - Sixth egg laid

24/05/24 - The female goes missing and does not return
28/05/24 - The two smallest chicks died
12/06/24 - Male breaks prey delivery record with 19 deliveries in one night
01/07/24 - Third chick falls from the roof and sadly dies
02/07/24 - Decision made to not ring the remaining chicks this year
07/07/24 - Both remaining chicks fledge the nest.

2023 - Hatchings
20/05/23 - Second egg hatches
22/05/23 - Third egg hatches
24/05/23 - Fourth egg hatches
28/05/23 - Fifth egg hatches
The last egg failed to hatch.

02/06/2023 - Chick 4, The youngest chick has unfortunately passed.
14/06/2023 - Chick 3 has now also passed.
29/06/2023 - Both remaining chicks are ringed by the Hawk & Owl Trust
Late July - Both remaining chicks have fledged.

2023 - Eggs
The first egg of 2023 was laid on the 14th April
14/04/23 - First egg laid
16/04/23 - Second egg laid
19/04/23 - Third egg laid
21/04/23 - Fourth egg laid
25/04/23 - Fifth egg laid

Stock Doves - Late 2023 using the nest after the Barn Owls.
25/08/23 - First egg laid
28/08/23 - Second egg laid
12/09/23 - Sadly the nest has been abandoned by the Stock Doves.

2022
Our breading pair hatched 6 eggs. All successfully ringed and fledged.