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Wildlife Diary 2014

December 2014 A damp start to the month, the temperature dropping below freezing on some nights and predominately northerly winds. Despite this the grass is continuing to grow slowly, good news for the voles living in the litter layer and everything that eats them! By...

Giveacar to the Barn Owl Trust

The Barn Owl Trust teamed up with Giveacar in 2011, the UK’s largest car donation service. Since then over £1,000 has been raised to support our work. Giveacar arranges the free collection of any car, regardless of its condition, anywhere in the UK. Cars are either...
A Very Urban Barn Owl Nest

A Very Urban Barn Owl Nest

September 2014 Is this the most urban Barn Owl nest site in Britain? It’s cerainly the most urban we’ve had reported to date. This unusual nest site in Cardigan (Wales) was recently reported on the UK Barn Owl Survey website and appeared in a local paper,...

Breeding Season News, June 2014

June 2014 After a disastrous 2013 when the Barn Owl population hit a ‘living memory’ all-time low, we are delighted that this year things are looking up. Not only are the birds breeding earlier than usual, our annual monitoring visits have so far shown...

State of the UK Barn Owl population 2013

April 2014 We all know that 2013 was an extremely poor year for Barn Owls. This prompted the Barn Owl Trust to collate results from 21 independent Barn Owl monitoring groups around the UK and pull them together. The publication ‘State Of The UK Barn Owl...