Barn owls are nesting in Stockton again — thanks to their port caretakers

Barn owls are nesting in Stockton again — thanks to their port caretakers

Tune into one of the live feeds from the Port of Stockton and you might catch an ivory, heart-shaped face filling the frame — a curious barn owl settling inside its wooden nest box.  The box is one of twenty stationed high between the port’s industrial warehouses, each perched on a wooden rod; a small refuge where native owls can lay their eggs and raise their young. And down below, at one of three nest boxes fitted with cameras on a recent Thur…