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Friday, March 11, 2011

Coach30's early morning roundup: Treats (15) 8 mice, 1 vole, 5 gophers and 1 ratz steak! (included but not limited to!) Last reported treat by Tresbien: 5:29 mousie!

(More treats possibly between 10:00 and 2:00 pm unaccounted for )- Blog report ending here for day

10:00 pm: TweetKathleens' early evening report:( 12) 6 mice; 1 vole, 4 gophers and 1 ratz steak

6:27 pm PST Clyde with mouse – Billy

6:37 Bonnie with mouse - Billy

6:44 Clyde with mouse - PBF

7:16 Bonnie with mouse

7:29 Clyde with vole

8:01 Clyde with gopher

8:20 Bonnie with mouse

9:01 Clyde with mouse - PBF

9:12 Clyde with rat steak

9:31 Clyde with small gopher

9:39 Clyde with big gopher

10:00 Clyde with humongous gopher.

11:05 Clyde with gophersurus.
5:29 am mouse

Flyabouts:

6:20-6:37

6:51 pm

7:10-7:16

7:59-8:20

9:09-9:13

10:36-12:08

Thank you Tweet for amazing coverage as always. Thanks for everyone moderating and joining the chat at The Hideout !

Clyde in Flight March 11 9:30 pm screenshot by OwlCamGuy

Click below for Owlberts Photo play by play of the evening!

http://s1130.photobucket.com/albums/m525/owlfin/Bonnie%20and%20Clyde/?albumview=slideshow

Owl Space Nine: The Next Clutch: by Saavik!
http://owltlaws.blogspot.com/p/owl-trek-next-clutch.html

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12 barn owl fascinating facts

Discover 12 fascinating facts about the beautiful barn owl.
1 The barn owl was voted Britain’s favourite farmland bird by the public in an RSPB poll in July 2007.
2 Historically, the barn owl was Britain’s most common owl species, but today only one farm in about 75 can boast a barn owl nest.
3 Barn owls screech, not hoot (that’s tawny owls).
4 The barn owl can fly almost silently. This enables it to hear the slightest sounds made by its rodent prey hidden in deep vegetation while it’s flying up to three metres overhead.
5 The barn owl’s heart-shaped face collects sound in the same way as human ears. Its hearing is the most sensitive of any creature tested.
6 Barn owls are non-territorial. Adults live in overlapping home ranges, each one covering approximately 5,000 hectares. That’s a staggering 12,500 acres or 7,100 football pitches!
7 It’s not uncommon for barn owl chicks in the nest to feed each other. This behaviour is incredibly rare in birds.
8 In order to live and breed, a pair of barn owls needs to eat around 5,000 prey items a year. These are mainly field voles, wood mice, and common shrews.
9 Though barn owls are capable of producing three broods of five to seven young each year, most breed only once and produce, on average, only two and a half young. 29 per cent of nests produce no young at all.
10 91 per cent of barn owls post-mortemed were found to contain rat poison. Some owls die as a direct result of consuming rodenticides, but most contain sub-lethal doses. The effects of this remain unknown.
11 In a typical year, around 3,000 juvenile barn owls are killed on Britain’s motorways, dual carriageways and other trunk roads. That’s about a third of all the young that fledge.
12 Everyone can help barn owls. Leave a patch of rough grassland to grow wild thus creating habitat for voles, erect a super-safe deep nest box, volunteer for your local barn owl group, switch to non-toxic rodent control