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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Hold on to your seats, its a bumpy ride in Chula Vista!! Wind, Rain and more rain !
TwoOwlWingz reports: 10 Treats: Rain overnight kept the treats to a smaller count:
3 mice, 3 gophers, 2 rats, 1 Kangaroo rat from a soaking wet Clyde, one unknown

7:22 Clyde, visits the kids, sees empty pantry, looks out the door and braces for a windy rainy night of hunting
7:32 Clyde with mouse to Annie
7:44 Clyde with Gopher to Annie. B &C arrive together, Bonnie pushed back by force of wind! Bonnie in box, Clyde looking out saying I guess I'll go!
8:12 Clyde with large mouse to Jesse, too big for jesse, Billy takes it!
9:37 Clyde Kangaroo rat to Jesse, gulped!
9:54 Clyde big rat to Annie!
_____TweetKathleen reports_____________
1:57 am Gopher by Clyde to Billy who shredded it and ate it
2:38 am Soaked Clyde- Rat to Annie

2:38 – 3:40 am No treats (Clyde flew to Lookout but left immediately).

A few cam outages through early morning hours
4:49 Clyde with treat, to a gulping baby. Stays a minute, looking for Bonnie out the door, flies off (outside cam view)
5:00 am Soaking Wet Bonnie comes in with no treat! Owltlaws are not pleased! Bonnie leaves to hunt.
5:51 Clyde with mousie to PBF
6:30 Bonnie with Gopher to PBF, who turns away with it from others to gulp!

Today in OB History- Happy Birthday, Max! Cowliflower reports that Max turns One today!

10 pm Annies third attempt at Big Gulp of Ratski (to be continued)

Treat #3 started by Jesse, who shredded a bit Alas Billy "took over" and gulped!

Jesse: FOOD PLEASE! Billy: "All caps means yelling, Jesse" 4:20 am March 21

6:30 am Bonnie returns Wet, hands off treat screenshot by Tresbien

late night delivery screenshot by Owlfinn

"One of Us has to go out there!" screenshot by Owlcamguy

OCG Pans down to show us bottom Potting Ledge 8:30 March 20

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Night before:

Bodacious Billy the Kid "looking"out the door at 36 days old- March 20th 6 pm -Owlfin

Excerpt of last night's blog:
6:00pm Billy taking another few steps toward door, wanting to peer out! Hold your roll, Billy!
Tresbien quotes "Billy looked 12 hours old at hatch!".
Hummerdad remarked "People of Chula Vista! Run while you can! Billyzilla will swallow you all!!: o

Stay tuned tonight for more hysterical antics from our Fab Four, Chivalrous Clyde and Bonnie, the no nonsense Keep it Clean folks Momma !

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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