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Thursday, April 14, 2011

April 13-14

7:40: Billy spotted by OCG on patio furniture !
7:45 Annie goes outside
7:55 Flyby~
9:17 Annie takes Flight !
9:30 Bonnie in tree per OCG watching the Owltlaws
9:41 PBF getting air in the wings ! Lots of flapping, "almost" a take off !
9:48 Annie flies to the Hitching post, and then zooms over to top of box ! Annie also spent some time in the tree next to the Hideout
10:05 Jesse steps completely outside for a few seconds- Billy returns, and all four owltlaws are on the porch

10:10-10:45 All four on porch (Jesse "mostly out" , Bonnie in tree, and Clyde on Lookout
3:30 Outside Cam down
4:00 am Billy back in the box for a bit, so all four in
4:30 Three owltaws in, Billy out
6:30 All four in for day
With the new fledge activity, we can't be certain if we aren't missing treats. It seemed very unlikely Clyde would enter the box without a treat- with frenzied activty, treats can be swallowed very quickly and we miss it! All four owltlaws doing very well, and Fledge training/ activity by Parents continues on track. Each night we see huge differences, all four out last night, both Billy and Annie flying and PBF "almost" up..

Billy on the Lookout April 13th early evening

Billy on Patio April 13th

All four outside at 10:06 pm April 14th

Clyde leaves a "momento" on the sneeze guard while watching over his Owltaws April 14

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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