Until the recent bad weather, the Yorkshire Wolds was considered a stronghold for the barn owl.
Wildlife experts believe it could take up to 18 months before a barn owl moves into a nest box.
This might be a blackbird in your garden or a barn owl down the road - all are important!
Last year, a barn owl was found dead after apparently becoming trapped in a lantern on a farm in Berkeley.
The last surviving barn owl at a Driffield nature reserve has found a mate and produced a brood of five chicks.
The Somerset Community Barn Owl Project will see at least one box erected in each parish by the end of 2014.
More than 90 nest boxes have been put up as part of a project to help boost barn owl numbers in Somerset.
Somewhere near Amberley, a barn owl lifted from a stand of phragmites.
Yet this was like no owl I had ever heard before: not the furry hoot of a tawny or the screech of a barn owl.
Chris Sperring from the Hawk and Owl Trust said the loss of traditional nesting sites meant about four out of five barn owl pairs now bred in boxes.
"I have every belief that we will ultimately be increasing the barn owl population of Somerset and helping a diversity of other wildlife along the way, " Mr Sperring added.
The Somerset Community Barn Owl Project began in March and aims to put up 334 boxes in total, with at least one box in each parish by the end of 2014.
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