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10 All-New Barn Owl Conservation Videos!
The Barn Owl Trust is proud to announce the release of 10 new instructional videos on Barn Owl conservation. These videos have been designed to give members of the public and all involved with Barn Owl conservation an invaluable visual reference source. We noticed an absence of useful Barn Owl material on YouTube. We searched […]
The First Barn Owl Directory
The Barn Owl Trust has launched the first ever UK Barn Owl Directory. This allows visitors to the BOT website to find by region, groups and individuals to help with local conservation advice, Barn Owl casualties or Barn Owl surveys for planning applications.
Mid-summer Evening Walk
Thursday 21st JUNE 2018 – 7:30pm Enjoy a gentle evening stroll around the Lennon Legacy Project land and then join us for refreshments in our lovely wood-panelled Meeting Room. We can’t promise you’ll see a wild Barn Owl but you will get to see perfect Barn Owl habitat. Suggested donation per person: £8 (Friends of BOT […]
30th Birthday Coffee and Cake Mornings
Mon 25th JUNE – 11am Tues 31st JULY 2018 – 11am Join us for coffee and cake to celebrate our 30th birthday! Meet the staff and learn a little about the work of the Trust. If the weather is good we may walk around our 26 acre nature reserve, the Lennon Legacy Project. Free – […]
Butterfly Walk & Cream Tea
Thursday 5th JULY 2018 – 2:30pm Join us for a walk around the Lennon Legacy Project land to see the many butterflies (including the beautiful Marbled White) that have benefited from the Barn Owl habitat we have created here. Afterwards enjoy a delicious cream tea in our Meeting Room. Photos of butterfly species found on our 26 […]
Bat Walk
Friday 3rd AUGUST 2018 – 8pm Lead by a local bat expert, this event will involve a walk around the LLP during the early evening and stopping in different habitats to listen for bat activity with a bat detector; bring your own detector if you have one please. We have previously recorded: Greater horseshoe. Lesser horseshoe. Common pipistrelle. Soprano […]
New report – ‘State of the UK Barn Owl Population’
The State of the UK Barn Owl Population – 2017 report has just been published and distributed by email to all our UK conservation contacts. The results are based on the checking of 6,955 potential nest sites by 38 independent Barn Owl projects, and ringing groups. The number of contributing groups has grown from 28 […]
30th Anniversary Prize Draw
Each year we hold a Prize Draw to raise funds, this year is rather special because it’s our 30th Anniversary and we’ve had some brilliant prizes donated. Tickets are now on sale and are £5 for a book of five. Make a donation for yours (please tell us it’s for the Draw). Help Barn Owls and have a chance […]
Nestcam Diary 2018
To watch our wild Barn Owl webcams, please go to WildlifeTV and click the Barn Owl photo for Barncam or Nestcam. Wildlife TV kindly provides the cameras and live footage free to the Trust. About our owl cams. June 2018 21st – the presumed male has been at roost initially in the nestbox and more latterly in the barn up to at […]
Wildlife Diary 2018
June 2018 A Red Kite was watched flying south over the field at low altitude down the valley towards the town at lunchtime on the 14th. May 2018 A preliminary visit to check the LLP small bird boxes on the 1st revealed two male Pied Flycatchers in song along the Ashburn, several pairs of incubating […]
Happy 30th Birthday – Barn Owl Trust!
This year the Barn Owl Trust is celebrating its 30th year as a registered charity! “Conserving the Barn Owl and its Environment” Founded in 1988, we’re still a very small UK charity working very hard to conserve one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We believe that we can reverse Barn Owl decline through education […]