Thank you for allowing us to follow the journey of this owl family. Really enjoyed watching them grow up and fledging successfully. Good luck to all of them and may they stay safe in their new adventures. Thank you Eric and to John for being a wonderful moderator. Can't wait for the next season of little fluff balls. ❤
Thanks Tammy! It was a fun season watching the family grow up. Always a pleasure to have you drop by and chat with us. Your enthusiasm is contagious!! See you next season.
Hi Eric, I was following your owls this year, a lovely bunch! I just don't comment much. :) Now I'm building my own owl box and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind discussing a couple things. How large is your entrance opening? I watched some videos on YT, but they are mostly British, and their box design is way too complicated. I copied a Florida bix frim Charter Group, even emailed Dr Charter eith questions, but e didn't give me any details and acted like I never asked anything about the camera...
Greetings! We are glad to hear that you were able to visit our Owls this season and decided to build your own Owl House. I don't know how far along you are with your construction, but I highly recommend that you spend some time at the website of The Barn Owl Trust in the UK. They are an excellent source of information and have very specific recommendations regarding features of the house concerning the health and safety of the Owls. They even have step by step plans available on their site to help you with your build. ( www.barnowltrust.org.uk/ ) To answer your question, I went back to my plans and found that the oval entrance door on our house measures 4 1/2 X 6 inches. Good luck with your project, and enjoy the process!
Thanks for the opening size, Eric!! That's the last thing I had doubts about. I have a degree in Zoology, and have been following nests & bird rehabbers for a few years... I have a decent idea of what could be beneficial/harmful; we're good there :) I already have the box framed (40" x 24" x ~28"tall; I went with a frame, because I can mount the frame and then assemble the box in place by myself); have the plywood ready, picked a good shaded spot. I don't much care for most British designs, too complicated, plus their Barnies are Tyto alba, smaller species than American Tyto furcata. I asked for size and mostly copied (with some improvements for water insulation and cleaning options) Dr. Charter's Florida boxes because they are the best for camera set up of all streams that I saw on the web, you can see everything in those boxes. What's the make and model of the camera that you have set up for inside? Does it require a special software?
@@I.L.-cx4fy I appreciate the fact that you very experienced and knowledgeable regarding nature and birds, but would still encourage you to visit and spend even ten minutes reading the recommendations regarding Owl House design at the Barn Owl Trust site. I think the dimensions of your box will provide a very nice house and can allow you to incorporate features that will increase the safety of the Owls, without making it complicated. One suggestion I will make is for you to place the door at least 16 inches above the floor if you design allows. This will prevent the Owlets from prematurely leaving the box and possibly falling to the ground. Again, good luck with your project. I used a Foscam R4S camera. The camera is wireless over Wi-Fi.
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I didn't in any way refuse to read more on owls, sorry if I sounded snobbish ir know-it-all. There's new knowledge appearing every day! So I've read all there was to read on the site you mentioned (+lots of other sites) a long time ago, and re-read some parts now, too. My entrance will be almost 20" off the floor, almost under the roof. Dr. Charter said 50cm (20") is best, so I went with that. I saw owlets falling out too young (and getting hurt, and on one occasion stolen), because of low entrance location. I will look up your camera, too.... Thank you very much... On one stream with a very good pucture quality) they mentioned in stream description that they use Axis p3265 live, so I bought that. I opened, started reading the manual and I realized that I don't understand anything about how to set it up, will take some time and I'll need help from someone more techy. So I'll probably use Alfred webcam app to monitor if anybirdy visits the nest untill I can find help with installing the Axis... Can you, maybe help?... I'm fairly smart (I wired a couple 220 circuits, for an oven and flow-through electric water heater from scratch, once someone told me what breakers to buy, gage of wire and what's code-compliant), but I don't have any understanding of electronics and reading schematics. Are there more details on your camera model? There's Foscam 4s for $55 snd for $109 on Amazon...
Thank you for this Eric, it's so touching to see this from courtship to dispersal. Some great memories of them growing up under the excellent care of Athena & Adonis. I hope they are all safe and doing well. Thank you for introducing many to the wonderful lives of Barn Owls - truly one of nature's most caring and lovable birds of prey. We look forward to seeing the channel Live again towards the end of this year, beginning of next - for a whole new journey.
Thanks John! Having you as our Moderator has added so much interest to the channel. Your insights and education add so much to the experience. Thanks again!
Thank you for allowing us to follow the journey of this owl family. Really enjoyed watching them grow up and fledging successfully. Good luck to all of them and may they stay safe in their new adventures. Thank you Eric and to John for being a wonderful moderator. Can't wait for the next season of little fluff balls. ❤
Thanks Tammy! It was a fun season watching the family grow up. Always a pleasure to have you drop by and chat with us. Your enthusiasm is contagious!! See you next season.
Thank you Tammy - I appreciate your kind words.
Hi Eric, I was following your owls this year, a lovely bunch! I just don't comment much. :) Now I'm building my own owl box and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind discussing a couple things. How large is your entrance opening? I watched some videos on YT, but they are mostly British, and their box design is way too complicated. I copied a Florida bix frim Charter Group, even emailed Dr Charter eith questions, but e didn't give me any details and acted like I never asked anything about the camera...
Greetings! We are glad to hear that you were able to visit our Owls this season and decided to build your own Owl House. I don't know how far along you are with your construction, but I highly recommend that you spend some time at the website of The Barn Owl Trust in the UK. They are an excellent source of information and have very specific recommendations regarding features of the house concerning the health and safety of the Owls. They even have step by step plans available on their site to help you with your build. ( www.barnowltrust.org.uk/ )
To answer your question, I went back to my plans and found that the oval entrance door on our house measures 4 1/2 X 6 inches.
Good luck with your project, and enjoy the process!
Thanks for the opening size, Eric!! That's the last thing I had doubts about.
I have a degree in Zoology, and have been following nests & bird rehabbers for a few years... I have a decent idea of what could be beneficial/harmful; we're good there :) I already have the box framed (40" x 24" x ~28"tall; I went with a frame, because I can mount the frame and then assemble the box in place by myself); have the plywood ready, picked a good shaded spot. I don't much care for most British designs, too complicated, plus their Barnies are Tyto alba, smaller species than American Tyto furcata. I asked for size and mostly copied (with some improvements for water insulation and cleaning options) Dr. Charter's Florida boxes because they are the best for camera set up of all streams that I saw on the web, you can see everything in those boxes.
What's the make and model of the camera that you have set up for inside? Does it require a special software?
@@I.L.-cx4fy
I appreciate the fact that you very experienced and knowledgeable regarding nature and birds, but would still encourage you to visit and spend even ten minutes reading the recommendations regarding Owl House design at the Barn Owl Trust site. I think the dimensions of your box will provide a very nice house and can allow you to incorporate features that will increase the safety of the Owls, without making it complicated. One suggestion I will make is for you to place the door at least 16 inches above the floor if you design allows. This will prevent the Owlets from prematurely leaving the box and possibly falling to the ground. Again, good luck with your project.
I used a Foscam R4S camera. The camera is wireless over Wi-Fi.
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I didn't in any way refuse to read more on owls, sorry if I sounded snobbish ir know-it-all. There's new knowledge appearing every day! So I've read all there was to read on the site you mentioned (+lots of other sites) a long time ago, and re-read some parts now, too. My entrance will be almost 20" off the floor, almost under the roof. Dr. Charter said 50cm (20") is best, so I went with that. I saw owlets falling out too young (and getting hurt, and on one occasion stolen), because of low entrance location.
I will look up your camera, too.... Thank you very much... On one stream with a very good pucture quality) they mentioned in stream description that they use Axis p3265 live, so I bought that. I opened, started reading the manual and I realized that I don't understand anything about how to set it up, will take some time and I'll need help from someone more techy. So I'll probably use Alfred webcam app to monitor if anybirdy visits the nest untill I can find help with installing the Axis... Can you, maybe help?... I'm fairly smart (I wired a couple 220 circuits, for an oven and flow-through electric water heater from scratch, once someone told me what breakers to buy, gage of wire and what's code-compliant), but I don't have any understanding of electronics and reading schematics.
Are there more details on your camera model? There's Foscam 4s for $55 snd for $109 on Amazon...
Thank you for this Eric, it's so touching to see this from courtship to dispersal. Some great memories of them growing up under the excellent care of Athena & Adonis. I hope they are all safe and doing well. Thank you for introducing many to the wonderful lives of Barn Owls - truly one of nature's most caring and lovable birds of prey. We look forward to seeing the channel Live again towards the end of this year, beginning of next - for a whole new journey.
Thanks John! Having you as our Moderator has added so much interest to the channel. Your insights and education add so much to the experience. Thanks again!
@@Erics-OwlsIt has been my pleasure - thank you for offering me the opportunity to Moderate