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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Just the Facts Fling & Fly Report March 25-26th: Total 19 treats: 10 mice, 7 gophers, 1 rat, 1 vole(4:56 update)

(Thank you Tresbien!)

7:41 Clyde gopher to Jesse

7:46 Clyde mouse to Billy
7:52 Clyde with slider to Billy

7:59 Clyde with mouse slider handoff to Billy, then to Jesse

8:34 Clyde with Mouse to PBF

8:51 Bonnie with Slider to Jesse (Not Willow, lol)

9:08 Clyde mouse to Jesse

9:30 Clyde with gopher to Jesse, who protects with his feet against billy

____TweetKathleen reports___________

9:57 Clyde slider to Jesse

10:07 Clyde slider to Jesse

10:15 Clyde gopher Billy

10:28 Clyde mouse - PBF

10:43 Clyde mouse - PBF

10:52 Clyde gopher - PBF

11:10 Clyder slider to PBF (kept his foot on it until he lost interest.) Annie finally ended up eating it at 1:55 am.

12:53 Clyde vole to Jesse

1:03 Clyde fling n fly gopher to Jesse who dropped it and is still against back wall.

1:22 Clyde with rat to Billy.

2:39 Bonnie with gopher to Billy who dropped it on the floor. Going out the door, Clyde came to greet Bonnie and they both flew off.

Bonnie was on Hitching Post for approx 35 minutes as the owltlaws weren’t calling for food. Billy was eating one of the gophers, one remaining in pantry.

(Thank you Tweet!)

****Annie Oakley turns 40 today********
Owlfin's March 25th Slideshow

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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