FAQs & other info
If you wish to have an owl box on
your property please note the following:
- You must have a tree in your garden that is at least 5-7m in height. The type of tree is not particularly important, but we must be able to get up a tree of that approximate height in order to erect your owl box. If you do not have a tree you need to tell us that prior to installation. We can erect the owl box on a pole, but there is an extra fee charged for that.
- You do not need to be there when we install, but there must be somebody there to let us onto your property.
- Domestic cats and dogs pose no problem to having an owl. Most of our participants have all types of domestic animals and nature tends to live in harmony very nicely. Owls eat mostly rodents and we have not had a single complaint of an owl worrying cats nor vice versa. We occasionally hear of an owl low-flying over dogs that go sniffing around the bottom of a tree in which owl chicks are nesting. While there is no actual threat to the dogs, when the chicks are on the ground, (as they sometimes are when they are learning to fly), we often advise our members to keep their dogs inside for the 3-4 days that the chicks go on the ground. After that they fly and there is no problem.
- Owls will not generally impact on the avian wildlife in your garden. Most garden birds are diurnal, whereas owls are nocturnal. As such, they keep a different timetable to the owls and neither interferes with the other.
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