A trip out after work…

Dominic and I headed out to Chilgrove to one of my favourite boxes at 18.30 after I finished work for the day. I had high hopes that this box would have owls as I found some here last year. The hinges ont he box haad rusted on and I could not open the hatch last year, so I knew we needed to do some maintenance.

While I emptied out the box (it was full of shredded owl pellets almost up to the hole), Dominic put on some new hinges.

Dominic mending a barn owl box door.

I also wanted to try out he “stopper” my step dad had made for me which you can see in the photos below. This is used to stop any owls or owlets jumping out of the box when we put the ladder up to inspect the contents of the box.

Glorious view out over the Chilgrove countryside.