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Friday, March 18, 2011

Tresbien's Just the Facts Fling & Fly Report Total Treats 23: 1 bunny, 2 gophers, 7 rats, 9 mice, 4 unknown! (as of 5:28 am)

7:17 Bonnie outside on perch to 7:20, some yoga stretches, and she's off !
7:43 Clyde, mouse to Jesse
7:56 Clyde, mouse to Annie
8:01 Clyde, mouse to Billy
8:07 Clyde, mouse to PBF
8:12 Clyde, mouse to Annie
8:15 Clyde, mouse to Annie
8:17 Bonnie, Bunny-Bonnie stays to unzip and enjoy while doling a piece out
8:22 Clyde, mouse to Annie
8:30 Bonnie relaxes a bit on the porch, while Billy continues to work on the bunny
8:57 OwlCamGuy pans down the camera
9:30 Clyde with Gopher to Billy
______LvOwls Reports____________
9:57 - Clyde - mouse
10:04 - Clyde - mouse to PBF
10:10 - Clyde - rat
10:35 - Clyde - rat
10:47 - Bonnie - rat - then she took another rat from the clean floor and ate it!
11:10 - Clyde - mouse to Annie
1:13 - Clyde - rat
2:02 - Clyde - rat
2:54 - Delivery (ty OwlFinn)

____Report from Outside View____ (3:30 am on)
3:28 am Bonnie outside the box checking in (Cam is down)
4:07 Bonnie arrives, then Clyde arrives with her, beaks off a treat to Bonnie, and bonds on the ledge. Bonnie enters box to deliver treat while Clyde flies to top of box as Sentry.
4:20 Bonnie with delivery, B & C Arrive together again! Bonnie in box scratching shag, Clyde on top of box
4:21 Bonnie LEAVES with a big treat
4:30 Clyde still maintains Sentry Post on top of box!
4:37 Bonnie returns with treat. Clyde flies down from top of box. Bonnie beaks off treat to Clyde who delivers it inside the box, Bonnie remaining on Porch! Owlets hisssssssssss!
**blog offline 5:28 am - please see chat for further treat deliveries** Blog to be updated again after 4 pm today!

OwlFinn's Photo Slideshow of The Hideout March 18th through 19th!

Bonnie returns with treat, Clyde flies down from top of box, takes treat, delivers to Owlets! Babies hisssss 4:39 am March 19

Bonding outside the box March 19 4:07 am

OwlCamGuy pans down the camera for interior view 8:57 pm March 18

Clyde with Mouse at 8:22 pm while Bonnie just delivered a bunny inside!

Billy "cigars" 4th treat of the night at 8:01 pm March 18th

March 18 7:11 pm Bonnie ready to go!

Horkapalooza! CVowlmom finds some Hork Treasures underneath the Box March 18th

On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. (and Owls love it too !) "The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993" (Thank you MtnGal for this informative link!

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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