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Nest Box 3 Webcam

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. Welcome to our bulletin board. Here you will find breaking news about the Broxton Barn Owl Group, our upcoming events and meetings and other items of interest. Jennys e mail :pjljg@btinternet.com. See our latest updates on the Bulletin Board. Download the 2012 Report. View our image gallery on Flickr. View our nest box webcam. Web site designed and built by Mexican Red Ltd.

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Videos of the Broxton Barn Owl Group

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. Below is a step-by-step video featuring some of the members of our group demonstrating the process of erecting a nesting box. See our latest updates on the Bulletin Board. Download the 2012 Report. View our image gallery on Flickr. View our nest box webcam. Web site designed and built by Mexican Red Ltd.

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Broxton Barn Owl Group

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. Welcome to our website. If you love Spring Watch but want to make a real difference yourself…. We are particularly keen to recruit new working members who are interested in days out in the Cheshire countryside in good company. Help us to make and erect nest boxes, as well as clean and repair them. Join the ringing teams and meet the owls eye to eye! Anyone who can help us with administration work would also be very welcome. Please contact us via the contact page. At Meadow Bank Fa...

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About The Barn Owl

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. Latin Name Tyto alba. Their size ranges between 33cm to 39 cm with a wing span of 85cm to 93cm. They weigh between 280g and 350g, the female being slightly larger and heavier than the male. A long drawn out blood-curdling screech particularly when in flight also hisses and chirrups. The female will sometimes snore when begging for food from the male which is also a characteristic of the young at the nest site. The adult owls become more vocal during breeding season. Once the prey ...

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Nest Box Webcams

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. The pictures are from cameras placed inside owl nest boxes on a farm in Cheshire. To see the pictures from each box please select from below. We welcome visitors to the website viewing the boxes but the main purpose is to found out more about the Barn Owl . We have software which automatically registers movement in the box and starts recording the images for a period . This will give us information on feeding frequency ,nature of prey ,frequency of egglaying etc.

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About The Broxton Barn Owl Group

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. The inspiration for the formation of our group was the enthusiasm of Mrs Dorothy Bramall (Dot to all of us) and her late husband George who made it all happen. The key to success was to talk to people. Local farmers and landowners in West Cheshire responded very positively to visits from these amateur ornithologists and soon Barn Owl boxes were appearing all along the River Gowy and the other streams and ‘wildlife corridors’ of the county. At first funding was difficult but some i...

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Broxton Barn Owl Group - What we do

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Broxton Barn Owl Group. We try to identify suitable areas and then visit the land owner or farmer to get permission to put up nest boxes. It should be emphasised that most of Cheshire farmland is totally unsuitable for Barn Owls as it consists of fields which are either heavily grazed or silaged at regular intervals or both. We also put up tree boxes. We carry the boxes and the poles to the sites using a trailer bought with a lottery grant. A video showing the erection of a box can be seen here. Our othe...