Barn Owl Mom's Protective Instincts on High Alert

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Some people comment about cleanliness of barn owls nest due to YouTube cleaning nests out a lot. Barn Owls do not have any sense of smell and brings dead animals, some of them later rot and also regurgitates owl pellets inside the nests. Owls do not clean their nests and natural nest sites stay like this until they either fall a part or fill up. We do clean our nest once a year, so in fact our nest boxes are cleaner than natural ones. Cleaning boxes too much can cause pairs to abandon and also takes aware beneficial insects that help keep the boxes clean.

Barn Owls 2023
1st egg on February 15, 2023
2nd egg on February 17, 2023
3rd egg on February 19, 2023
4th egg on February 22, 2023
5th egg on February 25, 2023
6th egg on February 27, 2023
7th egg on March 2, 2023

Date of hatching
1st nestling on March 17, 2023
2nd nestling on March 20, 2023
3rd nestling on March 22, 2023
4th nestling on March 25, 2023
5th nestling on March 28, 2023
6th nestling on March 30, 2023
7th nestling on April 2, 2023
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Pigeons 2022
2nd clutch
1st egg laid: Sept. 22, 2022
2nd egg: Sept. 24, 2022

1st clutch failed
1st egg laid: June 23, 2022
2nd egg: June 25, 2022 (was destroyed: 30.6.22)

Barn Owl 2022
This barn owl female acted like she was incubating for months but never laid eggs. Her mate fed her and would mate with her frequently. Two orphaned barn owls were brought to the Wildlife Hospital and need a home. In order to give the nestlings a home , we added two eggs on June 5, 2022 to the box the female started to incubate them. The following night we added two nestlings. The pair accepted them but unfortunately only brooded and did not feed. One nestling died fast while the other was taken out after less than a day to save it.

Pigeon Fall 2022
1st egg on September 20, 2022

Pigeon lays eggs on Spring 2021
2nd brood
1st egg on July 26, 2021
2nd egg on July 28,2021

1st brood
1st egg on June 28, 2021
2nd egg on June 30, 2021
Nest abandoned due to disturbance of barn owl fledgling and then Myna predated the last egg

Barn owl nest 2021:
Date of egg layingתאריך הטלת הביצים
1- 6/3/2021
2- 9/3
3- 11/3
4- 14/3
5- 19/3

Date of hatching תאריך הבקיעה
1- 7/4/2021
2- 9/4
3- 12/4
4- 15/4
5- 20/4

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