A-Z of Barn Owls and the Barn Owl Trust H is for HABITAT The best foraging habitat for Barn Owls is rough grassland – a thick, matted, tussocky mix of native grass species with lots of Field Voles and other small mammals. Grass that’s allowed to grow tall in the summer and not cut or grazed, will collapse by the Autumn. Fresh green blades of grass will then grow up through it and by the following summer most of the first-year’s growth will have died-back and formed a ‘litter layer’. A litter lay

✨Saturday Species Spotlight✨ Barn Owl The barn owl is what most people in Britain think of when asked about the species of owl we have here in the UK. They get their name from the place they choose to nest (barns, old buildings, tree cavities and nest boxes. Small mammals, especially field voles, mice and shrews, make up the majority of a barn owl's diet. Dawn displays perfectly in this video the barn owl's 'stalling' behaviour, which is where they almost hover in the air. This gives the owl mor