June 15th, 2008 at 9:02 am (pebog)
If you would like to become a member of the Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group, there is a page detailing membership fees.
If you would also like to donate to the Barn Owl Trust you can write a cheque made payable to Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group
June 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am (events, pebog)
| 17 July 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
| 20 July 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
On the 17 and 20 July we will be building some more A Frame Barn Owl boxes at Park Bridge Heritage Centre at 10am. Please feel free to join us…
May 27th, 2008 at 3:30 pm (events, pebog)
| 26 June 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The next PEBOG meeting will be held on Thursday 26th June 2008. If you would like to come along, please feel free to join us at the Dog and Partridge on Ashton Road, Ashton at 7pm.
Please click the following link for directions.
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts April 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm (owls)
This is an image of one of our latest guests to be staying in the boxes. Its not a Barn Owl, but i don’t think they will be moving into the boxes for a few years yet.
Please contact us if you have seen any owls in your area..
Also, please feel free to comment on the picture or the website in general. I know i should be updating the website more, but if there is anything you feel that i need to include, or any more pictures you have of the website, please let me know at the above email address.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pm (pebog)
Thanks to all who turned up on Sunday for the Conservation day. It was very successful!! We managed to clear the areas around three of the barn owl boxes as they were over grown. The fourth barn owl box is situated on private property and we hadn’t arranged with the land owner to gain access to the box, so we left this one for another time. From looking at the box from a nearby field, it didn’t look as over grown as the other ones.
Now that the flight paths have been cleared from the other boxes, it will increase the chances of bird nesting in them. I can’t imagine that there will be any Barn Owls this year, but hopefully they will be used by other birds such as Kestrels, Tawny Owls or Sparrowhawks.
I still haven’t managed to write the minutes up from the last meeting, but once i have they will be emailed and put in the post to all paying members.
If anyone wants any more information, please feel free to contact the group at the email address below.
Look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting on 10 April.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:54 pm (events, pebog)
| 9 March 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
We have arranged a conservation day on Sunday 9 April. As long as we are allowed to borrow the telescopic loppers, we will be trimming the area surrounding the entrance to most of the A frame Barn Owl boxes. Although Barn Owls breed throughout the year, its a good idea to get this done to enable the Barn Owls to see the boxes as a lot of them have been hidden by leaves and branches.
This may also attract other birds to start nesting in them boxes, although we haven’t had any sightings of birds nesting in them yet.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:02 am (pebog)
Posted by mobile phone:
Last night was the latest meeting of PEBOG and with the addition of two new members we had a successful meeting.
It was decided that we contact three farms and asl for permission to survey their land in order to place one of our 10 pole boxes.
We arranged a conservation day to trim branches obscuring the current A Frame boxes. I contacted 4 Barn Owl groups asking for advice on installing Pole Boxes.
The next meeting was arranged for 10 April. {apologies as i had originally written this as 10 March}
February 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm (admin)
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February 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm (owls)
After taking my dad to the airport at 6am on Saturday morning, my fiancee and i went for a walk around Quarry Bank Mill. As you can imagine at about 7am on a saturday it was very quiet. We started following the path but eventually got to a path that took us straight to the airport road. At this point we stopped and decided we were too tired and hungry to walk that route, so we turned back.
Just as we turned round, i noticed a tree in the middle of the field with a large hole in the middle.I was originally thinking this would be am excellent place for a Little Owl, but instead there was a large Tawny Owl sleeping in the middle of the tree. It was an excellent view and we watched it for about 10 min. Although as it was sleeping, it wasn’t the most exciting bird to watch, but was a brilliant spot.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm (owls)
My fiancee and i recently travelled to a small Lincolnshire Village in the Wolds to a little country pub (The Clickham near Binbrook). We were hoping to see some Barn Owls, but as we were about to leave we heard a Tawny Owl. It sounded quite close, but as we were driving away i saw another one on a hedge on the side of the road. It must have been about 9pm and there was a car behind me.. otherwise i would have stopped to have a closer look.
I know its not a Barn Owl.. but i thought i would share it with you.
Please contact us if you see or hear any owls in the Greater Manchester area. Barn Owls preferably, but any sightings of any owls would be of interest to us.
