Pennine Edge Barn Owl Group (pebog)

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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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}

After upgrading the version of Wordpress, i have now upgraded some of the plugins that are available. The most useful one that i have found is a mobile version of wordpress. So if, like me, you have a mobile device that connects to the internet, you will now be able to access all the information in the pebog website on your device. Just go to www.pebog.org.uk. The page will display in a format suitable to whatever handheld device you are using…. even a PSP!!

If you have any problems, please get in touch. Thanks!

Hi,

If you have reached this page in error (ie in trying to access www.westpenninesbarnowltrust.org) you have come to the right page. I have just put a redirect in on the old website so you will automatically be transferred to this page. The old west pennines barn owl trust homepage is slowly being killed off so now all traffic should come to this homepage.

The reason for this change is that we were originally called the West Pennines Barn Owl Trust, although some of our members discussed that we weren’t actually in the West Pennines.

Thank you for your patience and please contact us if you experience any problems.

Regards

Johnny

Hello everyone, this is the new look website with a new domain name. Over the next few days i will be transferring all the information from the old website to this one. If anyone has any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at

penninedgebarnowlgroup@gmail.com

There will be minutes of meetings and images of the work we have done so far.