Conservationists are celebrating after barn owls nesting at a Cambridgeshire farm hatched twice as many chicks as this time last spring.
Three pairs of birds at Lark Rise farm have produced 17 chicks in total and may have a second brood this summer.
The UK barn owl population was hit badly last year after a late spring.
Vince Lea, from The Countryside Restoration Trust which runs the farm, said the brood was "the biggest ever" in the 12 years since the owls arrived.
"We had no owls in this area for a long time, then eventually they started to nest and generally we'd have about three chicks per pair each year," he said.
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