My Schedule 1 license for ringing Barn Owls came in to use last night, as I had time to visit a near by nest box. This, pleasingly, revealed four very healthy looking chicks. As ever with Barn Owl chicks, there was a clear difference between the oldest...
Too big really!
And the youngest...
Just a ball of white fluff with a Barn Owl face!
The biggest were the oldest Barn Owl chicks I have ringed, and boy do my hands know it...
It didn't hurt at the time, but it looks like I've been pulling up brambles with my bare hands!
Fantastic Steve
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