Feb 22, 2023Sad news from Strix and AlucoOver the last few weeks, many of us have been logged onto Aluco in her nest box, incubating her eggs. Tawny incubation is 30 days. We had...
Feb 12, 2023Aluco loses one egg.....Fairly soon after laying one of her eggs, eagle-eyed viewers spotted that one of the eggs appeared damaged. On reviewing the footage, it...
Feb 11, 2023Tawny Dramas; limps, cracked egg and a 3rd eggThere has been a lot happening since the last blog post when I thought that possibly we were only going to have two eggs. Aluco lay these...
Feb 4, 2023A Second Tawny EggAfter the excitement of egg one, it has been fabulous watching Aluco in the nest box and waiting for the next egg to arrive. As she has...
Jan 30, 2023We have a Tawny Owl Egg!For anyone who has followed me for a while, the names, 'Strix' and 'Aluco' will be familiar to them. These are the names I gave to the...
Nov 1, 2021Yew View updates October 2021I felt it was about time I gave a Yew View update! At this time of year, lots is going on to get cameras and nest sites ready for next...
Jun 6, 2021Nyx update from Yew View!It seems some time ago now that our beautiful owlet, Nyx, left the nest box at Yew View. Pretty quickly, a stock dove thought it would be...
May 1, 2021The final week in the Tawny Box; Nyx faces the outside world!For many of us, watching the live cameras from the Yew View tawny box has become a daily obsession. It is difficult not to get 'attached'...
Apr 21, 2021Growing Fast and Eating More!If you have been watching the live tawny cam over the last few weeks, you will have also been amazed at the incredible growth rate of...