The couple formed the Broxton Barn Owl group in 1995.<\/p>\n
The group monitored the species’ population and installed specially created boxes on trees and poles to help barn owls raise their young.<\/p>\n
“We followed river valleys, to see where wildlife corridors were likely to be and we put up barn owl boxes, and they came,” said Mr Wright, one of the group’s founding members.<\/p>\n
The group went on to work closely with other local conservation and environment groups in the area to raise awareness of threats to habitat and record barn owl sightings.<\/p>\n
The Bramalls have both since died but their legacy lives on.<\/p>\n
In 2006 there were more than 650 young barns owls that had been born as a direct result of the Broxton Barn Owl group’s work.<\/p>\n
In 2022 the number of breeding pairs was estimated to be between 160 and 170 – something the volunteers described as “amazing”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple formed the Broxton Barn Owl group in 1995. The group monitored the species’ population and installed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-220379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}