Sometime yesterday the hen bird laid a seventh egg.

 

 

The sixth egg was laid last evening.

Today our female owl laid a fifth egg.
Barn Owls usually lay at two and a half day intervals but ours have extended this timing slightly between egg 4 and egg 5.
Second clutches often contain large numbers of eggs so we may see more.

 

Today our owls still have four eggs so that will probably be the complete clutch.
The weather yesterday and overnight was very windy. It would be almost impossible for our male to hunt. Yet he brought in five voles and two mice!
It is likely he had cached these nearby when the weather was good on Friday.
When the female is sitting she is totally reliant on her partner. It looks as though she has chosen well.

 

 

 

 

Eagle eyed viewers will have noted some adult feathers in the nest box.
These are the moulted feathers from the incubating female.
She knows she is committed to sitting the eggs for a month and brooding the tiny chicks for a further fortnight. This is the perfect time for her to moult some wing feathers and grow new ones.

A fourth egg was laid late last evening.
If there is to be a fifth egg, it will be due on Sunday morning.

Yesterday evening our female laid a third egg. The fourth will be due early on Friday morning.