Flanders is a great place for barn owls as their is loads to eat in the form of juicy voles found in the long grass around the Moss edges. But it isn't perfect as there aren't any nesting places. So to help them we have put up 3 plastic barrels (recycling !) with entrance holes cut in trees on the edge of the Moss. These need checking each year for use and this year I had a lovely surprise when I took the top off one. A face full of flies, a honking smells and a hiss like a steam engine and there were FOUR fat, fluffy white chicks. We hope to ring them (put a numbered metal ring on their legs) before they leave the nest. It is great to see them doing so well as the previous hard winter w
inter would have been especially hard for them.
