Screech Owl roosting in box six

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Welcome to the 2020 nesting season!

Welcome to the 2020 eastern screech owl season. We have screech owls using the owl boxes for winter roosting. The owls will use the boxes in the daytime for roosting and sometimes using the boxes in the evenings for caching and eating prey. Nesting nesting season will not start until the spring.

Welcome to the Eastern Screech Owl Research Project

The purpose of this project is to study the eastern screech owl behaviors during the winter roosting and spring nesting periods in a natural environment. The project was started in 2011. The camera system designed to monitor the screech owls is located in a wooded remote area unlike other screech owl webcams located in urban areas or backyards that are broadcast on the Internet.

There are a total of eight screech owl boxes fitted with small cameras and one external pan-tilt-zoom camera used to watch the screech owls hunt and move in/out of the owl boxes. Multiple owl boxes are needed for roosting, nesting, and caching of prey. (see the photo below marking owl box locations)

The total study area covers about 30 acres. The cameras are designed to capture still photos when the owls enter and exit the boxes. This gives us information when the boxes are being used and when. During the nesting season it will give us information on how often feeding take place, when they take place, and what the prey was.

The cameras in each of the boxes and external pan-tilt zoom are streamed live for the public to watch. We would like to thank Dick Byers, our local screech owl expert, for his advice and help on this

http://www.pixcams.com/screechowl/