Reluctantly we have had to increase the cost of our nestboxes. Materials for building them have increased between 18% and 50% since May this year. Whilst we have tried to absorb the cost ‘in-house’, from mid-October we have had to increase the price of most of our boxes by approximately 11%. If, in the future, […]
Help Barn Owls and win a fabulous prize! Our ever popular Annual Prize Draw tickets are now available on-line. Every pound you donate gives you a chance to win a great prize and helps our vital conservation work with Barn Owls. If you would like tickets, please go to the Donate page, choose how much […]
Despite the pandemic and lockdown disruptions, many groups were able to monitor substantial numbers of Barn Owl nests and collectively contribute to a reliable impression of the 2020 breeding period. You can read the results, presented here in the State of the UK Barn Owl Population 2020, were poor in general, particularly in terms of […]
September The month began dry and mild and, on the 6th, and the 7th we recorded temperatures over 25°C. In the whole of August, the highest we recorded was 22.5°C! By the beginning of the month most of the sunflowers had faded and were drooping their heads. The crop was beginning to look lower as […]
Our Conservation Enquiries Service is now back! If you cannot find the answer to your Barn Owl question on our website, you can now call our office 5 days a week: Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm. In order to be Covid-safe and to reduce travel time and emissions, we have opened our office with […]
As most of our supporters know, Barn Owls used to be common in our countryside and now they are a rare and precious sight. A few years ago, at the Royal Cornwall Show, one of our staff was overheard talking to a landowner saying, “If we had wanted to kill Barn Owls we couldn’t have […]
According to HS2’s own ‘experts’, if it’s allowed to go ahead, HS2 from London to Birmingham will “cause the loss of up to 80 breeding pairs of Barn Owls” – either through the demolition of nest sites or the very close proximity of trains killing the owls. “We are extremely concerned” said David Ramsden MBE […]
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December A very wet month, 29 days with 229.1mm of rain. The mean for the month here over 14 years is 152mm. We had a mean temperature of 6.8°C – colder than the average (7.5° C). On the 8th Matt and Rick brushmowed, then brushcut and raked the orchid patch in Kiln Close. They then […]
The State of Nature report has collated the best available data on the UK’s biodiversity, with a focus on the trends in species as the key evidence of how nature is faring. It also assesses the pressures acting upon nature, and the conservation response being made, in order to give a rounded view of the […]
Climate change is real, and is man-made. That’s what the science is telling us. Every part of society, whether government, business or individuals, is being encouraged to operate in more environmentally friendly ways, to help sustain not only the quality of life we expect today, but for generations to come. We all need to start […]
