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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Coach's Early Morning Loot Report: 13 treats: 10 mice, 1 rat, 1 gopher, 1 small rabbit

6:20 clyde pops head in to say he is going hunting
6:26 clyde gopher no bonding
flyabout 6:31 to 6:34 3 mins
6:44 Mouse to Bonnie
6:49 bonnie feeds babies gopher
6:50 mouse to bonnie, clyde stays 2 minutes
7:05 mouse to bonnie
7:22 Billy self serves from the Buffet Corner and gulps a mouse in 10 seconds
7:26 Billy gulps a second mouse 4 minutes later!
7:29-7:32 Flyabout
7:33 Clyde with mouse
7:41 Flyabout to 8:22 -40 minute flyabout plus Bonnie brings back a mouse
8:32 clyde mouse, kisses Bonnie, checks on the kids (8:33 Bonnie hands mouse to Annie who gulps)
9:04 to 9:07 Flyabout
9:29 Mouse
9:31 to 10:35 Flyabout One hour 4 minutes, Bonnie back wet with large mouse!
10:40 Jesse gulps a large part of mouse at Bonnies encouragement!
10:44 -- After Bonnie partially nibbled off parts of the mouse to Jesse, Jesse took the mouse head first and ate it
11:18 - 11:20 -- 2 min. flyabout on porch
11:31 -- flyabout
11:53 Huge Rat and antics ensue, as the four owltlaws drag the Ratz Steak to the corner !
12:31 -- Bonnie returns from her hour long flyabout only to see, as LvOwls notes:
She's appears to be stunned by the appearance of the huge ratz and looks out the door as if she wants Clyde to bring her one. Plus, her mouse looks mighty small in comparison to that big ratz, so she puts the mouse in the corner. Then she decides, oh heck, ratz steak is her favorite, takes it from the left corner and enjoys feasting on it for a while, then does the dinner call. Out from the left corner comes everyone, even Billy, but he's stuffed from previous mouse entrees and stares at the wall. It was a little hard to see as they were at the bottom of the screen, but looked like Jesse and the others did well. Then Bonnie got herself comfy over her owltlaws who were then in food comas!

Thank you LvOwls and Tweet!

march 3rd 11:53 Huge Rat from Clyde

Billy Self Serves one of two mice gulped within 3 minutes March 3rd capped by Tresbien

Clyde brings in 3rd mouse March 3rd screenshot by Amb15229

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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