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Monday, March 7, 2011

Coach's Overnight Roundup for Monday March 7:
Treats: 13 (8 mice, 4 gophers and 1 vole) Eleven (11) Flyabouts!
Thank you Arai for first part and thank you Tweet and Coach for excellent wrapup !!

6:25 small gopher PB swallowed it

6:40 mouse to Jesse

6:46 vole to Annie all from Clyde.

6:54 mouse to Billy from Bonnie

7: 32 pm Clyde mouse

10:05 gopher Annie gulped down.

10:14 mouse Billy gulped down.

10:40 large gopher

11:21 mouse

11:27 mouse from Bonnie

11:38 small gopher

1:10 mouse from Clyde
2:47 Mouse from Clyde

Flyabouts:

6:13-6:15

6:41-6:54

7:24-7:57

10:15-10:27

11:25-11:27

11:42-11:59

1:00-1:17 am

2:46-2:58

4:00-4:06

5:13-5:18

5:34-5:42

Highlights:

Bonnie pondered taking her First Night Out- See her on the ledge minutes from sunrise !

TweetKathleen notes: 1:30 am PBF swallowed a small gopher which went down tail first! Hard to believe these owlets are swallowing treats sideways and from the wrong end!.

Bonnie considers "Stay or Go?" March 8th 5:47 am !

March 8th Bonnie kicks out the Gag Shag to prevent the "FEDS" from comin in !

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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