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Monday, March 14, 2011

Hideout's Treat count: 11:20 pm update:at least NINETEEN (19) (12 treats reported by HummerDad and chatters early evening, what a great group !
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-----LvOwls Treat Reports from 10:00 pm until 1:30 am---------
10:00 - 11:20 Flyabout
11:22 - did not return by 1:30
10:28- Clyde-mouse-Billy
11:20 - Bonnie - shuffles in cleaning the floor, inspecting for dirt ! and brings mouse
11:26- Clyde - mouse
11:35 - Clyde - mouse - PBF
11:51 - Clyde - gopher
12:10 - Clyde - mouse
1:28 - Clyde - rat
1:45ish Delivery
5:56 am Bonnie flyabout
6:29 am Bonnie returns for the Day !

Late night 1:45 observations from TweetKathleen!

"Billy does the floor scratching thing like mom and he took 3 of the treats, 1 by 1, into “Billie’s pantry.” What a hoot! Floyd helped himself to a mouse and Billy took a mouse in beak and started calling to the owlets with the “come and get it” call (Editor's note: Agree with Tweet: Billy is definitely a Billie !) Then proceeded to eat it after no one came around to take it. Everytime Jesse would go for a little mouse, Billy would kick it with his foot. Don’t think it was done on purpose though ;-) "

Thank you Tweet ! Would seem the Mother Owl imprinting on Billy (Billie) has done its magic.

Clyde attempts "out of the box" bonding early evening March 15! (Oh Clyde) screenshot by Owlbert

March 15 5:51 am Bonnie contemplates "Should I Stay or Should I go" after checking in on the Owltlaws
Postscript: She came back at 6:29 right under the wire- Might be her last Night In- stay tuned!

5:56 am Bonnie flyabout
6:29 am Bonnie returns for the Day !

"Gee, I could have had a V-8! " March 15 screenshot by TweetKathleen

Catch up on new episodes of Owlspace : The Next Clutch by Saavik!

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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