Little Owl 2020.
Interesting to say the least! the new Little Owl box was empty, the Original box that been up for several years, well i had to stare at the screen for a few moments before i realised what was inside the box, on the left was a adult rabbit laid on its side full length of the box (remember this is four meters up an ancient oak tree) at the back of the box in the darkness was something curled up, not moving, asleep, i made a bit of noise, ah the distinctive face of a Stoat.
The spotted backed Stoat had dragged an adult rabbit up the tree into the box as a cached future meal. I setup my Camera Trap at the base of the tree for a week. As you can see from the first photo below the tree has a dead section at centre which links the hole top left, this is the route the Stoat uses to get to the nest.
As you can imagine we haven't had time for any monitoring so have no clue if the Owls survived, hopefully she's sat on several eggs.
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