Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group (pebog)

The presentation we did on Tuesday night was for the Medlock and Tame Valley Conservation Association. Information about this group can be found on the following website: http://www.medlockandtame.org.uk/.

They do excellent work relating to the conservation of the environment in the Medlock and Tame Valley and the surrounding areas, both urban and rural.

Please visit their website and download an membership application form to support the work they do.

Last night, PEBOG did their very first public presentation for the Tameside and Medlock Conservation Group. Each member of the group presented a slide each in front of about 15 people. It was a very successful event and i think we even got a few new members from it.

All in all it was very successful. We managed to inform the listeners that the noise of a Barn Owl is completely different to a Tawny Owl. A Tawny Owl “hoots” whereas a Barn Owl “screeches”. You can definitely tell the difference between the two.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any news or sightings of Barn Owls in your area.

If you would like to become a member of the Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group, there is a page detailing membership fees.

How Can You Help?

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

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…

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.

Dog and Partridge Directions

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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..

Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group

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.

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.

Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group

Look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting on 10 April.

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.

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}

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