As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Wednesday 11 June 2014

Barn owl bumper brood in Cambridgeshire celebrated


Conservationists are celebrating after barn owls nesting at a Cambridgeshire farm hatched twice as many chicks as this time last spring.

Three pairs of birds at Lark Rise farm have produced 17 chicks in total and may have a second brood this summer.

The UK barn owl population was hit badly last year after a late spring.

Vince Lea, from The Countryside Restoration Trust which runs the farm, said the brood was "the biggest ever" in the 12 years since the owls arrived.

"We had no owls in this area for a long time, then eventually they started to nest and generally we'd have about three chicks per pair each year," he said.

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