WATSONVILLE — The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...

Owls are nocturnal creatures that we rarely get to see up close, but there is one really good reason to attract them. This is how to attract owls to your yard.

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Natural predators come in all sizes, shapes and classes. There are generalists that eat whatever they can get a hold of to specialists that just hunt and consume certain species in a particular way.

Two years ago, Jack Chappen, of New Berlin, constructed barn owl boxes as his Eagle Scout project. He then searched for ideal locations to install his 10 boxes in Union, Snyder, Northumberland and ...

Flying silently through Nick Davis’ almond orchard, a barn owl swoops through the blossoming trees, listening for the slightest rustling of what could be its next meal. With one-inch talons and a grip ...

WATSONVILLE >> The barn owl is a killer. A highly efficient predator that can easily hunt down, tear apart and consume 12 rodents a night. “If you get a nesting pair and say four juvenile owlets in a ...