Barn Owl Chicks Get Ready To Take First Ever Flights 🦉| Willow & Ghost | Robert E Fuller
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BARN OWLS WILLOW & GHOST-
BARN OWLS WILLOW & GHOST- 2021 BROOD: In this episode we discover that Willow & Ghost's first brood are all female and watch as Ginger, Cinnamon, & Clove (nicknamed the Spice Girls) grow golden feathers ready to take their first flights.
Watch Willow and Ghost interact live on my nest cam: • Live From Fotherdale | Robert E Fuller and follow their story in this playlist: • Barn Owls 🦉Willow & Ghost | Wild Live... …
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Barn owl chicks
As this episode begins, the eldest barn owl chicks, Ginger, is six weeks old, just over a week older than youngest, Clove.
Developing fast
The chicks practice flapping their wings and as they do so some of the fluffy white down that covers their bodies begins to fly off like dust and you can see their darker plumage emerging.
Inquisitive chicks
The chick's grown curious about the world outside and begin to spend much of their time looking out of the entrance to their nest.
Willow & Ghost
These chicks are the first brood by barn owl pair Willow & Ghost and they haven't had an easy start. Dad, Ghost, has been a poor provider and it has been up to me to drop food parcels into the nest.
Bird ringing
in order to ensure we can trace these owls, Jean Thorpe, who runs a local wildlife rescue centre and is licenced to ring owls, arrives to place an identification ring on their legs. This doesn't harm them in any way and means they can be traced in the future. As we handle them we notice spots, or sparkles, on their breast feathers - confirmation that all three are female.
Barn owls weighed & measured
I weigh them at the same time. Clove, the smallest, is a healthy 330g. And Ginger's wing, from from the elbow joint to the end of the longest flight feather, measures 222mm. But the waxy sheath, from which the feather grows, is still visible, showing that her wings have more to grow.
Owlets fledge
By eight weeks, Ginger has lost most of her downy fluff and is ready to leave the nest, but on her first attempt slips and falls. Thankfully all is well and she is soon taking short flights. Barn owls don't leave the nest as soon as they've learned to fly and Ginger joins her mum Willow on the feeding post and now spends time with her siblings inside the nest, coming and going as she pleases. Her flying skills still need to be perfected - as do the landing skills of her siblings.
Late brood
This brood hatched so late in the year, and with an absent dad, I was worried about them. So it is amazing to watch all three chicks fledge successfully.
Next time
In the next film I'll follow the chicks' story as they get used to life beyond the nest… and reveal how barn owl pair Willow & Ghost start thinking about their next clutch, even though it’s winter!
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