Success - Tawny Owls Have Nested In Our Garden

What an incredible blog Dawn. I am absolutely thrilled for you.

How exciting Dawn to have created the perfect home and environment for these wonderful creatures to breed and rear their young. Well done you and hubby!
Let's hope they stay in the area and use your box year after year, wouldn't that be great...:))
We loved seeing and learning about the Owls at Muncaster in Cumbria last year, you must be thrilled to have a breeding pair enjoying your fabulous garden....:)

That's incredible Dawn...I can just imagine how excited you were to see this! Brilliant!

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Hi Karen, thank you. Actually had you in mind for your new garden :). Maybe you have kestrels around there too?

Hi Janey, we are thrilled its happened, dead chuffed. Lets hope they come back next Spring.

When I first looked up I thought they were wood pigeons. I think they were as shocked looking down on me as I was looking up at them, lol.

Wow Dawn....I can only imagine how you felt when you looked up...thrilling!!!....:>)

You know how excited I was Dawn ,absolutely thrilled for you it was wonderful news I'm sure they will be making their home with you in the future , well done John for making an excellent owl box ,they obviously love it ....

Hi Mot, yes I was thrilled, couldnt believe my eyes.
Hi Amy, of course you were a part of it at the time :). you felt my excitement. Not heard them for a few nights now, probs on their way ...

How exciting for you.

Just great Drc, as you can imagine.

It's a shame you can't see what becomes of them or where they go ,I expect the young ones will find new territories , the parents will probably stay in the area to breed again next year fingers crossed .....

Hi Amy, yes I think that's exactly how it works.

We're thinking of putting a kestrel box up at the other end of the wooded bit. They are open fronted boxes.

They are so cute.

Dawn, I think it will mostly be Buzzards around us, as it is here...and the occasional sparrow hawk. Can't wait to see your Kestrel box going up though....but the Tawny Owls.....wow!

Thanks Li.
Hi Karen, lots of buzzards here too but not sure how they nest, suspect very high up in trees like crows, I must research :-)

They look so cute Dawn, I can just imagine how excited you were at finding them. Good luck with the Kestrel box.

Wow dawn you are so lucky, how lovely to have them in your garden , we hear the owls here but have not seen them....

Brilliant blog and photos Dawn :o)

Oh how incredibly lucky, and to see them all summer too x

WoW my stomach did a flip when i looked at the pics of the baby owls, how amazing is that. WOW again.. Well done to you, hub and your Mum for creating the right Habitat for those amazing birds..Wow lol.

Oh how fantastic! I was almost as excited as you as I read your blog.
You have obviously sited the box in the right place, because I understand Owls can be rather pickie.
Fingers crossed Mum uses the box again next year!

Oh No! Snoopdog I hope you haven't put a jinks on them. I'm touching wood.

Lovely blog, how lucky you are to have them in your garden. Do hope they stay around for you ....

That's great Dawn. It must have been wonderful to see them. I hope they continue to nest in your garden :o)

This has brightened my day,Dawn,I adore Owls..ny favourite birds..such little beauties,and you are so lucky to have them..we never see them here,sadly,but thank you for showing us yours..and I hope mum comes back to breed in her new found home :o)

Awww Meadowland, what a nice thing to say :-0
Hi Gralew, yes, so exciting.
Hello Holly, very rare we see them a night, just before dark if we are lucky. Except on this occasion of course.
Thanks Annella, Pam.
Hello YoungD - lovely, isnt it. Jack Frost is doing well btw.
Hi Waddy, yes we did a bit of research into the positioning and drilled holes in the bottom of the box in case heavy rain flooded it.
Hello Stripes, Hywel, let's hope they do make it their permanent nesting site. Worried at one point that squirrels may have taken over it.
Thanks Snoopdog, apparently the mother owl is vicious if her babies are attached but as your talking from experience, we'll probably not bother with a kestrel box.
Hi Bloomer, glad you liked it. We are absolutely thrilled.

Forgot to say, when the babies left the box, Mum was never far away, calling to them.

Thanks again to you all.

Oh wow Dawn amazing!!!!! lucky you, they're so cute my first thought was furby lol, nice to see you back :-)

Wow that is just amazing, they obviously loved your garden, I am sure they will return again and again, the photos were smashing.

Hi Kathy, thank you, knew you'd be pleased. Furby, lol. Spot on. I bet your girls had Furby's the same time as mine, they're still up the loft, ha ha.

Hi Angela, thank you. Yes the garden must be just right, lots of food here and there's the nature trail over the road with canal, lot of vermin here, lol.

Funny you should say that Dawn we found one of ours just the other week while having a clear out, and it still worked!!! still as annoying as ever, used to scare Suzanne to death when it woke in the night lol.

Ha ha Kathy. One Christmas Charlotte knew she was getting one and insisted on staying up on Christmas Eve until midnight so she could open it. None of us had any sleep that night, lol.

That is really fabulous Dawn.....lucky you.

Hi Linda. It's great that they are breeding OK, whether its in our garden or not, just an added bonus :)

I have to tiptoe past Furby, its like a naughty puppy if you wake it up, still haven't taught it English yet lol
Good news re the Jack frost, you will probably have to split it next year. (more plants yay ) everything you sent me is thriving but i didn't have much success with the seeds you sent me last year, Any seeds for that matter, i think our spring's are topsy turvy as i usually sow enough to fill my front garden with high germination..
I was telling my hub about your Owls and he thinks its great and said Awww, and thats from someone who doesen't do gardening or nature :))) so, a compliment from him then..

Lol Daisy, the best part of the Furby is when they are asleep.

I've already split Jack Frost this autumn :-) Love it.

Seeds are weird, arent they, some of mine failed but I tried them again in the summer and they grew that time.

Say thanks to Mr Daisy, glad he liked them.

wow..great blog and pictures..its great when this happens..excellent and thanks for sharing

Congratulations . . . what a wonderful story! So glad you captured pics of the babies for us to see too. It has to be one of the most rewarding things to do - helping our wildlife: brilliant :)

Fantastic.you are incredibly lucky.I assume they'll probably come back for years now and nest.hopefully so, anyway! for you.

Superb!

How lovely to have owls nest in I never even see any where I live

Hello Skips, nice to see you. There you go, a perfect project for you.

Hi Sheila. Amazing isnt it. Sp pleased I got the pics when I did because they were soon out of sight.

Hello Paul. Fingers crossed they'll return. Feel so privileged. Watch this space ;).

Thanks Cloudy :)

Hello Jackie, very rare to see them but listen out at night, you just might.

Hi Karen just read ur blog .. Brilliant .. Omg amazeing .. Pics are really gud u shud them in to a magerzine ???

Hello Cristina, nice to see you again. Glad you like the blog, I hope they are nesting again this year, only time will tell. Did that golden hop I sent you a while back grow? Mine is just beginning to emerge again.

Tis is just the icing on the cake. What a joy and a privilege. Oh and I were so thrilled to be watching a sparrow family last night. We had just pulled onto the driveway when we noticed the sparrows shinning up the shingles of the house next door. Eventually, they flew into a tiny gap near the roof and we could see a little one pop its head out. We stayed in the car for about 10 minutes, staring up at our neighbour's house. Anyone watching must have thought us even odder than they already do! I dread to imagine our antics if we had owls; would probably lose the plot entirely.

Lucky you Tuesday, I never see house sparrows here and I love the, we have dunnocks though. The baby owls are active at night, as you can imagine, we are pretty sure they were on the roof of the house last night, chirping away, calling to be fed by their mum, so hot last night, had the windows open, bless them, lovely to hear.

Well there you go! Who'd have thought that you wouldn't have house sparrows? I know their numbers have declined but I still kind of take them as a given, in any garden. We have many more this year than last, which is lovely. How nice to hear the owlets calling to Mum.

Hello, I want house sparrows, lol!
The owlets were going crazy again last night, they sound like a squeeky toy, I guess they are saying to mum, "Feed me".

What a great acheivement for you, after placing the box there and actually getting the tawny owls nesting in it. Perhaps it will be a yearly thing now they know it's safe there. Obviously the wild life around is good enough to sustain their feeding. Lovely.