QUAIL is the only dish on the menu for two chaco owls hatched at Farming World at Boughton, near Faversham, in the last two weeks.

Sharon Hollens, who runs the Hawklands Centre, is as as run off her feet as any new mum.

She said: “I have to feed them at 11.30pm and again at 6.30am. We’ve got a baby barn owl too.

“There will be some baby kestrels soon and there are harris hawk eggs in the incubator although it’s 50/50 whether they’re fertile or not.

“They’re my birds so I don’t mind the work and it’s nice to see them growing up because it happens so quickly.”

Sharon said the birds, which have not yet been named, are fed on quail for the first few weeks to give them the best chance of survival.

Visitors can see the babies at the centre between 9.30am and 5.30pm every day of the week.