Hey my brother def happy and ready for this!! You know we were looking forward to this.. Glad you're doing good, great video!❤ God bless you🙏 Your kids are adorable your boy is def ready to take over 😀😉.
Yeah they are pretty funny in this video with the norwenglish they are trying to speak 🤣 hopefully we will turn this into a family business one day 🙂 I allways love to hear from you John! Stay safe 🙏❤
Good luck this year. I just moved to Oregon in the US, and nature was the primary driver. We now have deer and rabbits walking and hopping through our backyard. We also have Great Horned owls. Im hoping to discover where they nest.
Great videos!!! I've just discovered you on youtube and watched a few of them. I live too close to an urbanised, built-up area, but there is one type of owl I have seen and love, and I intend to make an owl house, too. And a bat house, of course. (One more question: are you Swedish? Or maybe Norwegian?)
Hey! Thank you for the sweet words. I'm Norwegian. If you build a house make sure it's the right specs for the owl you intend to house, so get the binoculars up for some reconnaisanse. Best of luck 🍀
Great video, and really cool to see the kids involved and teaching them...... Hope you get an owl soon !!! Ive just made a box myself as we have Tawnys here all the time and i had been doing some woodland clearance last week in out nature reserve and saw 2 Tawnys flying near.....So up goes the box when i can find a suitable loacation.. I made the box from an old Palate found in my neighbours skip as hes having some hope improvements done.... bit of recycling from me..hahah... Looks absolutely STUNNING where you guys live... you are very lucky, as in the UK space is rapidly running out as the population continues to be at bursting point and councils constantly look for areas for housing and that puts out greenbelt areas at risk...Not good....Anyway keep up the great work and teaching your kids the importance of what you do...
I've found out there are too few Tawny's here and most of the forest here is allowed to grow old and able to house Tawny's. Nothing better than they being able to fend for themselves. I truly hope England will be able to keep green belts, protect the forests and you protect human life as well. Most citydwellers don't know this. Will be a demanding winter this year, I hope you will keep warm and happy.
The one I built in this video took 1,5 hours including the filming, so it's not a big time consuming project. Best of luck and fingers crossed for April 🙏🤞
Lovely video bringing the kids. I live in the Sonoran Desert. I have barn owls nesting right over my front door on my house. I'm building a box for Spring to encourage them to get off my house...lol! Not sure how to mount it because I don't have trees like you do. Shall I screw a plate, attach a pole and cement it into a large pot? Recommendations welcome!!! Thank you the video!
hmm... you got any trees at all? :) If you don't have a tree around I think your approach is good. You probably don't need a plate, but a solid bottom in the owl box. Just attach the house to the pole before cementing and dig about 1 meter down.. 3 feet.. You good?
@@MartinWoodStudios yes I'll try it...just fearful of a collapse during the nesting season. Gonna also try to mount a solar wifi camera as well...just love these beautiful creatures! Thank you!
Great owl houses! I'm building a few ones myself right now as well. This winter has been really bad for owls, at least here in Finland. But anyway, hopefully you'll get new tenants soon or next spring if not this one!
Hey Thomas and thanks for checking in! Was it because of the cold the owls where suffering? (we had a really cold period here this year). I read, from an ornatologist, that after a hard winter that the Tawny Owls might skip getting offspring, I hope not. Well, still some time left and if I manage to attract an owl I have to buy a new lens for my camera. Best of luck to you too my friend
@@MartinWoodStudios This winter we got so much snow everywhere that they can't really hunt mice and moles etc. That live under the snow. And winter has been really long. They are starving 🙁👎
Beautiful work. I’d love to know the reason for charring the wood on the exterior of the owl box. Does this make it last longer or just for aesthetic purposes? I like how it blends into the surrounding much better than pale raw wood.
Thanks Popeye, for your wise info I'm very inspired to get going as the timing is perfect for my area.Ive been hearing several for the past two years. I think they are barn owls. ??? To me there's Nothing more comforting for some reason than hearing Owls at night. Loons are pretty cool Too. Have you made a Loon box or nest? Keep up the good work and Good luck, from Nova Scotia.
Heeey Karen love to hear from you ❤ So happy I am able to inspire you to help the animals! We don't often hear owls here and that is one of the reasons I made a couple of houses. I will check the owl houses tomorrow and see if I have some guests. Looks like Loons make nests for themselves and in Norway they only stay for winter on the west coast and I'm in east Norway. If you need a Barn Owl nest the size will be 16"/16"/16" and 6" hole... quite easy to remember. Thanks for saying Hi and I hope I will see you around 🙏
I really want to build an owl box and put a camera in it but I'm scared they might attack! Is it very common to get attacked by owls? If owls don't move in do other types of birds take the house?
You can install it when you put it up, dont wait for the owls to come. Stay 20meters away minimum when babies are in. Squirrels like these, owls will chase away other birds mostly.
Good thougts! I read the tawny owl might opportunisticly prey on bats, but there is still a lot of mice and rats nearby that is the owl's favorite dish. The bat box is impossible for the Tawny owl to attack, so it might just keep them safer. I'll keep an eye on it...
Thank you Jane. I try my best keeping the creatures around me safe and happy. Be it two-, four-, six- og eight legged 😊 Blue tits and other winged small ones are out in numbers here now. I love to listen to the sounds they make.
@@MartinWoodStudios more then see them , often is about hearing them , i just installed my second nest yesterday, and they arrived after 6 hours , incredible...I think they might be there but not coming probably due to the angle of how is facing the nest...maybe...who knows...but my first nestbox been untouched for months...
I've only seen owls 2 times in my 6 years living here. So my chances are slim and I wait for possible guests in march-april 2022.. after that I have to wait another year 😀
@@MartinWoodStudios really hope for you mate 👍 🙏 they are amazing ! In my backyard I have tawny owls and Ural owls ...don't know where exaclty they nest , but I placed a perch with a camera trail and I took some photos and video...majestic animals 🥰
Rooting for you- hope you get some owls....! I may make a box for an owl this winter. A couple months ago I was able to photograph a great gray owl in Wyoming - that was a thrill...!
@@MartinWoodStudios Falconry is a popular sport in our region, and the falconers would let the falcon stays on a stand topped with artificial grass carpet to protect the claws. So i don’t think owls are much different.
@@alialhilali9862 my thoughts on this is that the falcon has no choice in where it is supposed to rest and ofcourse it's a good idea to give it the best option possible. Whereas the owl is free to sit where it chooses, branches, other trees etc. The roof is also flat and not slanted. It cannot really grab onto the roof with the claws. I think it will choose to sit other places than the roof, but I will make sure to check the roof for claw marks when the season is out to see if it indeed has spent time up there. (If we get an owl). Thank you for pointing this out ❤🙏
