{"id":707426,"date":"2026-07-23T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:22:14","slug":"peterborough-farms-delight-after-six-white-owlets-found-nesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707426\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough farm&#8217;s delight after six white owlets found nesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dudhill, who works for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterborough.gov.uk\/council\/planning-and-development\/conservation-trees-and-hedges\/biodiversity-and-ecology\/natural-environment-and-community-action\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife Conservation Partnership, external<\/a>, said 2026 had been a much stronger breeding year for barn owls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have ringed quite a few groups of five and four owlets this year. But this is the first  brood of six I have found,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over the last couple of years, we have seen a decline in the number of babies but not adult barn owls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last year we found a lot of adults in boxes but they did not breed. This is all related to food. If there isn&#8217;t enough food around, then they don&#8217;t breed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year has been completely different. I personally found barn owl numbers have increased dramatically. But there are still some areas in Cambridgeshire that have not found as many babies as I have,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite monitoring barn owls for 15 years, Dudhill said the experience &#8220;never gets boring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you open a box, you have one or two or three little faces looking at you. It&#8217;s just as exciting now as the first time I opened a box,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Peterborough? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dudhill, who works for the Wildlife Conservation Partnership, external, said 2026 had been a much stronger breeding year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707426","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=707426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}