Three years ago, we erected six tawny owl boxes, two on our farm woodland patch and the others on friends' neighbouring farms.
First year 2016 - Blanked!
Second year - a grey squirrel seemed pretty cosy in one of ours but no luck with the others.
Third year......as in, Wednesday earlier this week - Ta-Da! Two lovely tawny owl chicks ringed from one of our boxes and a brood of three ringed from one of our neighbours.

Result!

Had a great Tuesday morning on our Dipper project....ringed 30 pulli and a further 13 still to do - will revisit on Sunday to do these when they've grown a bit!
Hopefully we will have time to monitor second broods although it's an 80 mile round trip to check our 24 nest sites.
The data gathered from our project will complement that gathered by Paddy, Paul W and Karen M from their site monitoring on the Eastern Cleddau and surrounding area.... updates to follow... 

Love Dippers 😊