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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Just the Facts Food Report Twelve treats! 3 gophers, 3 rats, 4 mice, 1 vole, 1 unknown.

Early evenin' round up:
6:18 Bonnie departs
6:24 Bonding attempt on top of box, Bonnie departs! lol
6:35 Clyde/huge gopher (gets battered around a bit in the box, Bonnie returns later and enjoys)
6:41 Clyde/ small rat/ billy
6:48 Clyde/gopher
7:01 Bonnie with mouse, departs shortly afterwards
9:00 Clyde mousie
9:15 Clyde mousie
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TREATS FROM 10:45 pm - 2:55 am
10:42 - Clyde - vole
11:15 - Bonnie returns
11:21 - Clyde- rat - Annie gulped it down. Good girl, Annie!
While Bonnie was eating, Clyde bonds as the owltlaws look on and Bonnie follows him out the door
11:22 - 11:28 - Bonnie returns with mouse
11:33 -11:36 - flyabout - returns for one minute
11:37 - 12:25 - Bonnie returns to owltalk with her owltlaws and
clean up the house with major scratching with her talons
12:29- 12:57 - Mom returns, slowly coming in making sure she doesn't bring in any dirt while scratching the floor with her talons
1:18- 1:49 flyabout
1:57- flyabout and still out when I left at 2:55 am
2:35 - watching Lookout cam - saw Jesse near the door, mom or dad
flew by and deet deeted. Jesse then went back inside further. That
worked!
2:51- still watching Lookout cam - Clyde came with gopher then flew
to the Lookout. Can't tell who's who, but could tell the gopher
was being tossed around by owlets.
*Hideout room pic went out at 2:25, still visible on Lookout Cam

Bonnie looking for the getaway while the sun is still up! March 16 7:11 pm

March 15th Family portrait by OwlCamGuy!

Hummerdad notes "we are seeing the Rare Pot Bellied Owlet"! Tuesday cuteness by Tresbien

March 13th through 14th slideshow of The Hideout by Owlbert!
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Saavik's Owl Trek the Next Clutch Episode #8 Episodes 1 through 7 here!

As Bonnie watches helplessly she realizes that the safety has been taken off for this "simulation". She reaches for her phaserhorker and realizes that she isn't carrying one. "Hork, she thinks, Ensign Rateater took it off my belt while I wasn't looking!" She looks around wildly, realizing there could be something else coming at her. Then, she sees a river flowing at the bottom of the meadow she's standing in. "More shenanigans there, no doubt." An awful screeching snaps her attention back to the fight. The hawk has hold of one of Clyde's talons and is half carrying, half biting into one of Clyde's wings. "If I don't do something he'll die, oh hork, I gotta attack!"
She thrusts herself into the air, coming up behind the hawk's blind spot, and gets her beak into the back of his neck. caught off guard, the hawk drops Clyde and he spirals out of control toward the ground far below.

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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