Helping Barn Owls: Cleaning Out Nest Boxes | Wildlife Conservation | Robert E Fuller

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Each winter, I restore and renovate bird boxes ready for the breeding season ahead. It can be a messy job.

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Over the years, I've put up more than 250 bird boxes across Yorkshire. Over time they can get quite congested. Watch as I clean out one barn owl box crammed with owl pellets. Thankfully it is a large box and there's still, just, enough space for the owls to get in!

Owl pellets
Owls throw up the parts of their food that they can't digest, like the fur and skeleton of voles, in the form of pellets. There are enough pellets in this nest to fill a wheelbarrow!

Education
It's not all messy work. I send the most intact pellets to students and school children so that they can learn about what barn owls are eating.

Behaviour
When I dissect one of the pellets I discover the remains of a day-old chick inside. That means the barn owl that lives in this nest is flying all the way to my house, two miles away, to find food.

Now that the nest is clear, there's more room for the owl to make a nest scrape, so, fingers-crossed we will get more chicks this year.

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I am a British wildlife artist and filmmaker on a mission to share my love for wildlife with the world. As well as creating detailed animal film and art portraits, I promote wildlife tours around the world and do all I can to help conserve and protect wildlife here at my home in Yorkshire. I hope that by putting nature in the frame I can foster a deep love for wildlife amongst my followers.

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