Owl nest

When the arborist was installing a bat home in a large old pine, he found a morepork / ruru nesting in a hollow in the trunk. Using a motion activated field camera we filmed the morepork’s nesting activity. There was at least one chick being feed. Open the attached 10 sec video clip to see the owl approaching the nest and feeding a chick.  Filmed on the 21st December.

 A further owl observation was made not all that far from the nest this month (April) by a family getting “nature time” during the lock down. They found a morepork perched in a tree down in the gully.  They had a special time looking at it and it looking at them.  They were only 1 metre away from it!