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Macdoum - I can imagine so well! Myself, had had the cam in the corner of my screen for a long, long time, then was off for some minutes and just then male appeared with prey! There's also a clip from that delivery - but as we remember from Klaus and Klaara - in the beginning, a lot happens under Mom's wings, so to say ;-)
In any case, I think soon Mr. Owl has to increase his nr. of deliveries - just a few mice a night isn't enough - I hope he'll manage.

Another Eagle-Owl-Webcam: in western Germany in the Eifel:

http://webcam.pixtura.de/SWR_UHU/index.php

The first little owlet has just hatched last night or so and is peeping loudly. You may turn the volume higher than usual (above the cam-picture), there is a small rail-line nearby and a street and a little village with wineyards underneath the nest.

Dutch Tawny Owls:
New clip from yesterday evening when the female left the nest - 2 owlets and 1 egg:

And the 3rd chick has hatched and was first seen during the night, when the female left the nest for a short time. The male has brought 5 mice this night! You can still see 4.


Clip by Leo Ceelen who installed the nestbox and webcam.

Thank you Bosuil,I have spread the word. Lovely video of such tiny beings.

Little Dutch Tawnies are now 5-8 days old and growing well.

Here Mom is away and 3 little beaks are visible:

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Visible now?

Yes Alice.(and Bosuil) Thank you.
Lovely fluffballs.

Really great cam this one Leonia. Great zooms too.

Dutch Tawny's not so tiny anymore - devouring whole mice ...


Snapshot from nestbox owner


And a clip: Male delivers mouse and one chick wants to swallow it,
female has to help


Clip from nestbox owner

Do check in to see - the female is away to hunt more often and for longer periods of time, so they chicks are often visible - makes me think back to the Tower of Power of Klaara & Klaus when they had even 4 chicks!

Dutch Tawnies - smallest one grabs the prey (clip from nestbox owner):

Can you post the link? I had it and then I lost it.

Alice link there,if thats the one you wanted ?

Link to Dutch Tawny Owl nest shows outside cam for the time being, due to a problem streaming the nestcam. Should be fixed soon, acc. to the website.

In the meantime, the video clips are in this YouTube channel

Snapshot of all chicks looking up to entrance hole
just after mom went out hunting this morning 1:20 AM:

Biggest Dutch Tawnie showing his wings - 3 days ago:



and this evening, the delivery of the first mouse resulted in a tug o'war between youngest and oldest:



Afterwards, people who watched it saw a mouse tail hanging out of youngest's beak ... ! Not the first night that youngest grabs the first prey of the evening.

Oldest chick takes a look outside:

Dutch Tawnies in their nestbox have hardly space for their large wings:



Since several days, the oldest chick goes up to the entrance hole to look outside and await the first prey.

This evening, he sits there for about half an hour. A sibling joins him, goes down again and the oldest goes down as well, but back up in a few minutes and
at one point, he almost drops down:


Video clip made by nestbox owner Leo Ceelen

He sat there for almost 45 min.!
Of course, the first mouse arrived a little after that ;-)

This morning I found a way to make my pics a bit bigger.
At about 10:15 am a little one was looking outside.


After that the mom has liked to fly away


Thank you Bosuil for sending me the link, so I was looking again how to handle with pics for my album.

Parent arrives with prey, but 2 owlets sit in the entrance hole!




Owlet has fallen asleep while sitting in the entrance hole, parent arrives with prey but he isn't hungry, nor lets parent pass by to feed his siblings ...

News about the other owl webcam in the Netherlands:
Three little owls were in the nest. Yesterday left the first one and this morning around 6 am the second one. In the evening I watched the last little owl sitting in the hole of the little house and I was waiting what would happen. And there are the pictures (are many of them, but the last ones of this nest for this season).
14:05

20:38 - 21:00 at exact this time little owl flew away


I wish the Owl Family all the best - always enough food and much fun in the world