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Monday, March 28, 2011

March 28-29th

The Do Drop Inn Food Report: Total Deliveries 11: 4 gophers, 2 Kangaroo rats, 2 sliders, 3 mice (Cam 1 down, report may be incomplete)

7:37 Bonnie on HP (Hitching Post) for check-in
7:58 Tweet notes owlet pouncing on treat!
8:05 Clyde w/kanga rat to Billy bit of an owlet scuffle!
7:45 Clyde with Gopher to Jesse, who shreds for next 20 minutes or so
7:53 Clyde with slider to PBF
10:00 Clyde with gopher
10:06 Bonnie with mouse
10:52 pm TALONS on porch!!
10:55 to 11:20 Billy at door, halfway out. Clyde watching carefully.
Clyde comes to door and tells William to "stand down"!
11:34 Bonnie with slider
_____LvOwls reports____
11:42-gopher
11:52-mouse
11:58-mouse
2:17-kangaroo rat
2:41-gopher

Thank you Tweet, LvOwls, Tresbien and Owltlaw team:)

Owlfin's Hideout SlideShow March 28-29th!
(shows Billy at the Door !)

Billy was halfway out the box last night on Day 45. Noelle, Willow's 1st owlet was noted halfway out of the box last night at day 52- ! Tis the time for Fledge in Owl Kingdom!~

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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