Barn Owl web cam

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We are currently watching the antics of the owlets in their nest.

You can find them on the Somerset Wildlife Trust website under the Barn Owl webcam.

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But also I am as susceptible as others, so what chance do they have, quite innocently at that :-(

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I knew you knew but I didn't know if everyone would know.

Chris

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Quite right to correct me Chris, being led by romanticism and writing 'she' because of the notion that only females of any species 'sing' when it is mainly the opposite. As too the many varieties of birds where the male plumage is elaborate and ornate, especially nuptial rather than basic plumage but we have the bad habit of saying 'she'. Caught me there, quite right. Probably explains why HE has entirely shut up since I wrote that ;-)

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Errrrr, it' the bloke nightingale that sings as it is with most birds.

Chris

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Here's the URL http://www.somersetwildlife.org/barn_owl_web_cam.html

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No earplugs :-(

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Does your respirator not have earplugs as standard?

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Oh yes, that too but not at two, she seems to be finished around midnight. Then we have a cuckoo very close at hand too, to top it hoopoes nested just across the road but they have stopped 'whooping and hooping' recently. For all of that, I love them all and am so glad to have them all close by.

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We have a problem with a nightingale which sings for hours and you need to keep the window closed to,enable you to sleep. It really has a beautiful song, but not at two in the morning.

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I am currently wishing to strangle the barn owl who nested about 40m from where I lay my head each night! Apart from that, I love owls as the many in this room in one form or another would show. I am tempted to put a webcam up in our barn if they return next year, which barn owls often do. The question might be whether or not I would get less sleep ;-)