Tits Population

They’re back! ……..and looking great – the Tit population at my home in West Sussex has suddenly exploded – great numbers and great variety – I have had Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, ...

Starling Gangs

Oh No! (says David Cole, a long time Twootz customer and wildlife photographer). Towards the end of June each year the starlings arrive – parents with masses of squabbling adolescence youngsters. ...

Where Have All the Blue Tits Gone?

So where have all the Blue Tits gone? At this time of the year I often have friends asking me where all of the Blue Tits have gone. There were throngs of them just a couple of months ago, but no ...

Great Spotted Woodpeckers

A total of seven Great Spotted Woodpeckers are dominating activity on my main feeding station. They are from two families – one to the north and the other to the south of my home and they are causin ...

Pheasant

Percy’s Back !!!! Every year when the shooting season finishes a fine cock pheasant appears at my feeding station. He is certainly not he same one that I noticed and fed by hand some twelve years ...

Tawny Owl

Date: 2018-10-18 10:01:07 | Category: Bird Protection | Author: David Cole
My latest delivery from TWOOTZ with the owl logo reminded me of a newsletter which arrived from the British Trust for Ornithology.

I regularly receive the news letters and Press Releases issued by the BTO to spread the word about their concerns and news in the world of ornithology and they have announced a new survey.

The British Trust for Ornithology is launching a new survey to understand how the impact of urbanisation and particularly light pollution is affecting the behaviour of one of our best loved owls – the Tawny Owl.


Tawny Owl


You can help the trust by taking part in their survey – details at https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/project-owl/tawny-owl-calling-survey?dm_i=IG4,5UWQV,39PPH0,MWGMQ,1

Knowing where owls are NOT heard is equally important to the survey as knowing where they are in good numbers.

The trust does much valuable work for our feathered friends and the wider the response to their surveys the better our understanding of wildlife problems.

OK, you won’t get many ‘Tawnies’ frequently your feeding stations – although I have had them visiting one of mine looking for the mice that scurry around the bases at dusk picking up whatever the daytime birds have left.