In 2017 I installed two nestboxes for Barn Owls Tyto alba in my garden in the Glaven valley, just inland from Cley, in north Norfolk: a large A-shaped box at the edge of the garden, overlooking a meadow; and a smaller box in an old cart shed, about 50 m from the first box and near the house. 

In 2019, a pair of Common Kestrels Falco tinnunculus occupied the larger box, from

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