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Sunday, April 24, 2011

april 24-25 Intruder Alert - Beautiful dark female smitten with Roy

Intruder Alert video (Three parts) Roy vs. BB Thank you OCG!

Intruder Female (named BB) returns Third Time after hearing Roy's love calls for Round 3-
Roy thinking "Oh boy, oh boy. What do I do now??Dale?? Errol? ! OCG? anyone!

BB first enters and Roy is stunned! Uh, who are you?

Roy had a three round stand off TKO with a possibly rare Dark female owl for almost 2 hours earlier in the evening! Roy maintained a defensive posture with flared wings and beak snapping, and the LoveLorn female thinks "why don't you love me". Long stretches of stare downs, but whenever the female got too close, Roy became more aggressive. Two situations of altercations with Roy chasing female out of the box. PBF returned at one point to the Hitching Post and Roy chased him off as well!
At 10:10 Roy maintains his position on the porch, not wanting to leave the Hideout !
(never a dull Easter in the Owl world, and The Hideout proves true to form !
Arai points out a link indicating this may possibly be a rare Black Owl, chances? 1, in 100,00 ~ IR lighting in the box tends to distort coloring, so we will never know for sure, but much excitement! Post note: BB was a Black Morph owl per the eggsperts !

BB returns after a three way altercation reported by Lvowls outside (Bonnie(?), Roy and BB)
BB enters the box and sees the treats Roy left ! Altercation ensues!

4th arrival, BB spots treats left for Dale (photo by Herpnut)

4th arrival, Roy is still not interested! (photo by herpnut)

4:30 am update: Roy calling incessantly throughout the night for Dale, taking short flights and doing the Male Mating chirp and call from inside the box. Owlets also heard in distant tree returning calls throughout the night.

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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