Bog Myrtle & Peat

I seem to have developed a golden touch when it comes to owl boxes. My first few were failures way back in 2011, but recent progress has been extremely satisfactory. I can’t resist publishing a quick picture of “our” owls emerging from the latest box which hangs in the bull’s shed. I built this box out of scrap wood a few months ago and recorded its installation in a blog article. Owls were using the box within a week, so it was clearly a placed in a good spot.

The box might be well positioned for owls, but it’s an awkward spot for a trail camera. It has taken me a while to actually capture this photographic evidence of its use, and now I have issues around “overkill” – I have acquired thousands of photos and almost an hour of video to sift through – dredging through this material will take some time…