Little Owl Nest Box

Little Owl Nest BoxCase Size 1 Need product images for your website? Click Here Dimensions: 465 x 535 x 390 mm Barcode: 679505014418 Our handmade bespoke wildlife products can take up to six weeks to build and deliver if we don't have them in stock. The Little owl nest box is a high quality handmade nesting box giving little owls a dark, safe, and purpose built nesting space. The high access ensures any young fledgelings in the box are contained for as long as possible.

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Dimensions: 465 x 535 x 390 mm

Barcode: 679505014418

Our handmade bespoke wildlife products can take up to six weeks to build and deliver if we don't have them in stock.

The Little owl nest box is a high-quality handmade nesting box giving little owls a dark, safe, and purpose-built nesting space. The high access ensures any young fledgelings in the box are contained for as long as possible. The reduction in the entrance hole prevents larger owls from gaining access to the box.

• Handmade from solid FSC®-certified timber in our Gloucestershire workshops
• Slow-seasoned timber negates the need for chemicals, stains or artificial preservatives.
• Lightweight but durable
• Recycled plastic hanging/fixing plates
• Deep dark box with a small tunnel entrance
• Fitted with camera clip

Siting

Little owls are traditionally birds of farmland, orchards or smallholdings with mixed land, outbuildings, cowsheds and barns. In the wild, the Little Owl can utilise rabbit burrows, old buildings or natural holes in trees as nesting sites. Consequently, the box should be placed between the ground and no more than 2.5 metres high, preferably out of domestic cats' reach. The box can be on a woodland tree, an orchard tree, a hedgerow, or a building. The box should ideally face East / North East or South East.

The availability of prey species close to the nesting box is vital. Little Owls eat a range of small mammals and invertebrates such as beetles, grasshoppers, moths and even small birds. These may be found in invertebrate-rich meadows, piles of rotting wood or compost heaps and muck piles.

Monitoring and inspection

Little owls are early breeding birds, so you may clean the box from September to January. It is good to use an environmentally friendly cleaning product such as Wildkleen to disinfect the box as Little Owls is messy.

Other species that may use the box are jackdaws and squirrels.