Little owl squabs in my yard

[Devil's advocate]

Young owls are they owlets?

Anyway at dinner time three young little owls in my yard trying to eat wheat. I went & caught one with no effort & it felt a bit light so I thought your a goner & left them.

At 11 pm they are quite active & look ok, no fear of me which is weird, but give me a good look up & down.

Is this normal for owls, just heard them, like a woman been murdered.

 

[Rnold]

Young owls are they owlets?

Anyway at dinner time three young little owls in my yard trying to eat wheat. I went & caught one with no effort & it felt a bit light so I thought your a goner & left them.

At 11 pm they are quite active & look ok, no fear of me which is weird, but give me a good look up & down.

Is this normal for owls, just heard them, like a woman been murdered.

Some people do call Little Owls ,Shrek Owls because of the noise they make.

 

[Exfarmer]

They are prone to coming out of the nest early, parents should be around to feed them some where. made the mistake once of tsaking some to the local owl sanctuary. They told me to take them back and leave them where I found them

 

[RhysT]

One of our Barn Owlets was out of the box last night. Didn’t know what to do with himself/herself!

 

[DrWazzock]

If they are “Little Owls” as opposed to just little owls then they are a mixed blessing. Here they drove the swallows away and tended to clean out every other bird nest. But they too disappeared eventually and normal nesting is back with robins and blackbirds doing well. They do screech a lot.

 

[Spencer]

Young owls are they owlets?

Anyway at dinner time three young little owls in my yard trying to eat wheat. I went & caught one with no effort & it felt a bit light so I thought your a goner & left them.

At 11 pm they are quite active & look ok, no fear of me which is weird, but give me a good look up & down.

Is this normal for owls, just heard them, like a woman been murdered.

Err how do you know what a women being murdered sounds like?

 

[Devil's advocate]

If they are “Little Owls” as opposed to just little owls then they are a mixed blessing. Here they drove the swallows away and tended to clean out every other bird nest. But they too disappeared eventually and normal nesting is back with robins and blackbirds doing well. They do screech a lot.

They are proper little owls.

Most summers they roost on a low building two adults & three young. Glad I did not try to hand rear or anything because they could jump last night if not fly.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Err how do you know what a women being murdered sounds like?

Dad asked that once.

Midsummer murder?

 

[Spencer]

Dad asked that once.

Midsummer murder?

And it is midsummer, the plot thickens!!

 

[goodevans]

Some people do call Little Owls ,Shrek Owls because of the noise they make.

Screach owls here,of all the owls they seem to be the ones in most decline

 

[How Dairy]

Ours used to eat beetles that would scramble across the driveway. I found the pellets and they were full of beetle casings. They are lovely little birds!!

 

[Treg]

Young owls are they owlets?

Anyway at dinner time three young little owls in my yard trying to eat wheat. I went & caught one with no effort & it felt a bit light so I thought your a goner & left them.

At 11 pm they are quite active & look ok, no fear of me which is weird, but give me a good look up & down.

Is this normal for owls, just heard them, like a woman been murdered.

I had some come out the nest a few years ago, noisy and messy for a couple of days then they were off, enjoy them while their there.

 

[Nearly]

Err how do you know what a women being murdered sounds like?

Even the posh side of Barnsley gets a bit rough.

 

[tractorsandcows]

And it is midsummer, the plot thickens!!

There will be two more murders

 

[solo]

We had many of the little owls here until the buzzards arrived. Last year I actually heard a little owl screech for the first time in about a decade. They loved nesting in the willow trees along the brook. Until the buzzards are thinned our, I doubt there will be many here again.

 

[nick...]

Got a few around here and my mum loves watching them.I think they are visious little things.got more of these than barn owls at present
nick...

 

[Goweresque]

One of our Barn Owlets was out of the box last night. Didn’t know what to do with himself/herself!

Put it back if it can't get back under its own steam. I had one come out of the barn owl box in my shed, it was hunched up on the floor looking very sorry for itself. I spoke to my owl contact for advice and he said definitely return fledglings to the box, the parents won't feed it on the ground so its a definite gonner if it stays out of the nest. Managed to catch it and put it back, there were 3 more in there.

Fingers crossed he makes it I'll know on Saturday, the owl chap is coming to ring them all.

 

[Wiggy1]

Put it back if it can't get back under its own steam. I had one come out of the barn owl box in my shed, it was hunched up on the floor looking very sorry for itself. I spoke to my owl contact for advice and he said definitely return fledglings to the box, the parents won't feed it on the ground so its a definite gonner if it stays out of the nest. Managed to catch it and put it back, there were 3 more in there.

Fingers crossed he makes it I'll know on Saturday, the owl chap is coming to ring them all.

I had to do the same last year with this fella. Fledged properly a couple of weeks after no problem

 

[steveR]

We had many of the little owls here until the buzzards arrived. Last year I actually heard a little owl screech for the first time in about a decade. They loved nesting in the willow trees along the brook. Until the buzzards are thinned our, I doubt there will be many here again.

Bloody things will clear out Barnies too... Hammer the Leverets....

I am struggling to think of a positive thing to say for those brown "crows"?

 

[solo]

Bloody things will clear out Barnies too... Hammer the Leverets....

I am struggling to think of a positive thing to say for those brown "crows"?

Barn owls have coped so far. It’s just the little owls that have been virtually eradicated.