Night Calling - Owl Friendly Augusta

Calling all Augusta owl lovers – a film about local owls and a local ‘owler’ to screen in Augusta after a sell-out premiere in Margaret River

A sell-out audience of over 400 enthusiastically acclaimed the wildlife documentary Night Calling when premiered at the Margaret River HEART in March.

All proceeds from a second screening at the Augusta Hotel on Saturday May 4, 4.00 – 5.30pm will support conservation work by the Augusta Wildlife Rescue Group.   

When award-winning film maker Sue Taylor and husband Bob built a retirement home in Augusta, they reconnected with well-known local ornithologist Boyd Wykes and offered their assistance with an Owl Friendly campaign he and colleagues had established to alert our community to poisoning of wildlife from widespread use of ‘one-dose kills’ rodent baits.

Two years later, the resulting film, Night Calling captures the heart breaking and heart-warming highs and lows of Boyd’s nocturnal dedication to researching a previously little known local population of the enigmatic Masked Owl.  Together with equal dedication by the Owl Friendly group to educate our community about ways to control rodents without harm to owls and many other wildlife.  

The Owl Friendly campaign, embraced by the Augusta-Margaret River Shire as a declared Owl Friendly local government, has inspired communities and local governments around Australia to follow suit. The campaign received invaluable establishment funding from the Community Bank Augusta–Margaret River and has received key support from the MRB Tourism Association’s Capes Foundation since Eagles Heritage was folded under its wing.

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