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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

March 29-March 30

The Do Drop Inn Food Report Total - 13 treats - 3 sliders, 2 voles, 4 mice, 2 gophers, 1 Rat and 1 unknown ( Hideout Room cam was down)
___________TwoClubsWingz Report_____________
7:51 -Clyde-Slider to Jesse
8:07 Bonnie, Vole
8:32 Clyde, mouse to Annie (gulped)
8:57 - Hideout room cam down but unknown treat delivered from Clyde as seen on Lookout
__________LvOwls Report_____________
Got real busy quickly....!
9:23 - Clyde - vole to Jesse which he gulped
9:30 - Bonnie - slider to Jesse and gulped
9:32 - Clyde - mouse to Jesse and gulped
9:35 - Bonnie - mouse to Jesse and gulped
9:38 - Clyde - slider to Billie then hand off to his sister, Annie - what a nice brother!
9:45 - Clyde - mouse to PBF who left it on the ground, noone was interested
10:04 - Clyde - gopher to Jesse, who for some reason was full, lol! Later Billy gulped
10:48 - Clyde - Huge headless gopher to PBF who gulped it down to our amazement!--then PBF turned around and faceplanted
Jesse continued to be the designated food caller all night!!!
___TweetKathleen Reports__________
12:48 Clyde – mini-rat – Jesse shred and ate some.

1:15 Clyde – delivery was accepted by Billy but too far front of Hideout to identify.Looked like Billy ate that and the rest of Jesse’s little rat.

1:15-3:40 am Quiet !

3:40 am Jesse begins calling for food, flyby
4:00 am Thick fog rolling in, owlets quietly call

5:29 Bonnie on Hitching Post, checking in
5:30 Clyde arrives on Outlook, checking in

TweetKathleen notes: "Jesse continued to be the sentry and called out for food the entire time I was at the Hideout"

***Heavy Fog! Our Resident Weather, Traffic and Flight Expert Hummerdad reports at 6:24:
No more deliveries today! Bonnie and Clyde are not certified to fly in these low levels of visibilities!

Fledge Fun Fact Note from LvOwls!: "BIlly was more subdued tonight, slept a lot and went to corner. No trips to the door before 11:41. !
Tresbien and Hummerdad agree: Treats are being cut back this week to slim down the Owltlaws and prepare them for First Flight! Isn't Nature amazing!!

Whooooose Your Daddy?! Clyde checks in on the Owltlaws March 30 5:30 am

March 28th Billy moving boldly to the door- screenshot by OCG

Saavik's Owl Trek: The Next Clutch Episodes!

Thanks to the B & C Moderators, chatters and Host! We Love our Hideout! (Best Kept Secret in Town~)!

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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