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A second barn owl egg has hatched

03. May 2026 - Wildlife

Barn owl in nestbox with two very young owlets and four eggs

A second barn owlet has hatched around midday today.

Again the image is not very clear, but you can see there are now only four eggs, and to the right of the eggs there are two owlets, the newer one nearer the top of the image.

Lower down the photo there are some fragments of egg shell which the owl moved from underneath her about 50 minutes before this photo. She usually eats the shell fragments some time later.

Barn owl in nestbox with two owlets and four eggs

Update

A clearer photo from this morning (3 May)

Click on the photo to zoom in.

 

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