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Sunday, April 24, 2011

april 23-34 Clyde says Home Sweet Home, again- Future Owltaws?

6:25 am Hummerdad officially calls "The Empty Box"
~ Fly free Billy, Annie, Pretty Boy Floyd with the spirit of Jesse and Jane along side you..
(Let's see if Bonnie "approves" Clyde's housekeeping in the next few days...)

Clyde for a last brief visit at 5:53 am, preparing the home for new Owltaws.

5:54 update: PBF and Annie are out hunting with Mom, and Clyde spent time entering and the cleaning up the Hideout for his Bride this morning. On this day of renewal, it looks like the saga may indeed, continue... : )

Clyde reclaims the home of the Future Owltlaws

We are proud and delighted as overnight Mods report Annie went out for her very first night of hunting lessons with Billy and Clyde. Annie returned with a treat for PBF as he flew off to meet her in CvMoms garden. Annie then flew up to the tree, to the porch and flew off. PBF flew from the porch to palm tree below to box and vicinity, also spent much time hopping about the Hitching Post. .

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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