20130103 Barn Owl Neighborly Box — 6 more videos!

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Jan 042013

Hey Followers,

Happy New Year! Yes, I took a break for a few days. Have been doing some garden work and filming video, but have cut back on my postings. Here to catch up a little — hope you enjoy the barn owl box videos. And please tell all your barn owl friends we now have 2 houses up! Will post “20130103 Barn Owl Skypad — wood shaving floor upgrade” on Sunday. Have a great weekend.

Tony

Barn Owl Neighborly Box 2 of 6 (video):

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Barn Owl Neighborly Box 6 of 6 (video):

Barn Owl Neighborly Box 7 of 6 (video):

Adding wood shavings to barn owl box nest floor.

Using eye screws to secure barn owl box lid. No tools needed to reopen the lid.

Service height of barn owl box, about 9 feet high. The box can be raised another six feet, then the pole pin will keep the box held 15 feet off the ground.

The telescoping pole's pin has been inserted to gain full height of the box off the ground.

Angle iron (90-gree straps) hold the box, mounting board, and pole together.

A very large washer acts as a flange to take the weight of the box and keep it from slipping down the pole.

Job Complete -- Barn Owl Neighborly Box has been installed and is ready to recieve owls.

Happy barn owl habitat installations.

See you Sunday.

Tony

20121213 Barn Owl Neighborly Box 1 of 6

1- Residential Habitats -- Critters and Their Homes No Responses »

Dec 172012

Today’s video shows Tony McGuigan, author of Habitat It and They Will Come, laying the prep work to installing a barn owl box on a pole along his driveway. Today’s footage shows the plans, the box, and the planned location of the pole. Part 1 of 6 videos.

Barn Owl Neighborly Box 1 of 6 (video):

From Tony’s project last year, Barn Owl Skypad (pic):

Barn Owl Box. Front panel opens for annual cleaning.

From the web (pic):

Barn Owl

Go to Designing & Building Barn Owl Nest Boxes for some great info on creating a successful barn owl box AND habitat. From the .pdf “Build A Barn Owl Box” on that site:

Simmons’ Barn Owl box has many advantages. It provides optimized protection from predators such as Great Horned Owls and raccoons. This is achieved by use of an ellipse-based entrance hole of unique shape and size and by an interior divider that separates the box into two compartments. The divider, visible via a transparent front in the drawing provides a safe living area away from the entrance. Should a predator gain access to the entrance hole, it is unlikely that it will fit completely through the hole, and the divider further prevents the predator from reaching around the divider to access the occupants.

Happy barn owl habitat making. See you tomorrow.

Tony