Our chicks have been ringed.

Today our licensed ringers visited the owl tower and ringed the two remaining chicks.
The eldest is nearly four weeks old but they were too young to be sexed. Both owlets were healthy and well fed.
We think the male was roosting in the nearby barn so his ring number couldn’t be checked. The female was the same bird which bred here last year. She was born in Morton, not far from the tower, in July 2018.
Viewers will hopefully notice a vast improvement in picture quality today as we cleaned the cobwebs and dust from the camera lens. The chicks will be in the box for several weeks but there will be occasions when they will leave the nest chamber to explore the entrance tunnel leading to the nest. They won’t venture away from the tower until their wings develop properly.

Female Owl

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Two Chicks