This is a tawny chick but the first occupant was a grey squirrel; jackdaws also frequented the box.
Tawny owls nested for three seasons. There was also one season of breeding barn owls.
The box lasted 7 years before it had to be taken down. At this time it was completely filled
with all sorts of twigs and greenery, largely put there by squirrels.
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Young tawnies couldn't fly but they could climb and would spend much of the day sitting on branches high up
in the canopy.
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This is one of the parent owls. It looked very strange since it had lost a lot of its chest feathers.
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