Making a home for the barred owl.
Three of us representing local stores – Ron Brenneman, of Birds & Butterflies, Roger Brock and Tom Hill, both of Aiken Outdoors – went into Hitchcock Woods on Sunday afternoon, March 8 to check our three owl nest boxes, clean them out, put in clean cedar chips and do any maintenance to the boxes as required.
It was a beautiful day as we hiked into the woods.
You never know what you will see in the Woods and that proved to be true on our visit. Shortly after we entered, we saw a baby feral pig cross the path, probably trying to catch up with its mother.
Hitchcock Woods is a perfect place for owl boxes with its nearly 2,000 acres of woods and trails for animals of all kinds.
Aiken Outdoors placed these three owl boxes in Hitchcock Woods in 2004 hoping to attract barred owls. Barred owls (Strix varia) are rather large owls with an average adult length of 17 inches and wingspan of 44 inches and the owl gets its name “barred” from the vertical and horizontal stripes or streaks on the chest and abdomen. More
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