Wildlife experts believe it could take up to 18 months before a barn owl moves into a nest box.
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This might be a blackbird in your garden or a barn owl down the road - all are important!
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Last year, a barn owl was found dead after apparently becoming trapped in a lantern on a farm in Berkeley.
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Somewhere near Amberley, a barn owl lifted from a stand of phragmites.
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Yet this was like no owl I had ever heard before: not the furry hoot of a tawny or the screech of a barn owl.
Until the recent bad weather, the Yorkshire Wolds was considered a stronghold for the barn owl.
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The last surviving barn owl at a Driffield nature reserve has found a mate and produced a brood of five chicks.
More than 90 nest boxes have been put up as part of a project to help boost barn owl numbers in Somerset.
"I have every belief that we will ultimately be increasing the barn owl population of Somerset and helping a diversity of other wildlife along the way, " Mr Sperring added.
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