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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

april 6-7

"I'm still here," says Billy The Kid! Fab Four Still Home April 7th
Tresbien: The Do Drop Inn Menu® Total 17: 2 mice, 4 gophers, 11 assorted items. Bonnie and Clyde continue to deet and coax out of the box with food.

Annie Steps Out! Video by Tweet Kathleen April 6th 12:12 am

*Fledge notes from Coach30: Billy only stepped out for a second at 12:50, seems they're quiet happy receiving their treats inside the box. Bonnie peeked in the box at 1:08 but there were no takers, in fact they all backed up a little further!
7:36 Bonnie arrives
7:43 Clyde checks in , flies off
7:45 Bonnie flies back, stays a minute, leaves
--Both parents doing the "coax out" right off the bat tonight--
7:56 Clyde with gopher at door
8:06 Clyde with treat at door
8:18 Clyde with gopher
8:34 Bonnie with treat
9:06 Clyde with mouse, who pauses at the door to deet deet at them for a moment
9:06-10:20 Bonnie on HP, owlets in lull mode, all quiet- occasional food call from Billy
10:22 Bonnie at door, no treat just watching
10:25 Billy reaches out to Bonnie, and she Deet Deets. He pulls away and she flies off.
10:26 Bonnie back one minute later, resuming her spot on HP. She is now making moves to draw Billy out of the box by changing patterns.
10:38 Bonnie with treat to Billy at doorway, who gulps. Bonnie returns to her spot on HP..

_____Coach30 reports____

12:26 a treat to Annie, looked like a mouse

12:46 a mouse to Billy, it looked like Billy wanted to give it to Jesse but Annie got it

12:50 Billy takes a quick step out and back in

12:53 mouse to Billy

12:58 treat to Annie, not sure what it was, she gulped it down right away

1:08 Bonnie with a mouse and then peeks into box

1:24 Bonnie with a mouse to Jesse

1:52 gopher, uneaten until later

2:12 Bonnie and Clyde both come to the box, Bonnie sticks her head into the box while Clyde looks on, they soon flew away

3:27 gopher to Jesse

(Thank you Coach !)

3:52 Billy leans out door, but doesn't exit !
4:25 Clyde delivers huge gopher to Billy at the door. Billy turns and dangles treat as if to say "Who wants it". Jesse, of course, snatches it and places it on pantry floor.
4:47 Clyde delivers mouse to Billy at the door. Billy dangles and offers to all three siblings with an extended "Call Around Deet" for food. Billy finally pushes into the corner and leaves the treat on pantry floor.
6:00 am Bonnie on HP

Clyde delivers to Billy at door 12:46 am Screenshot by Owlfin

April 7 4:07 am "Im Still Here!"

April 7th 4 am kisses

April 7 Big treat at 3:29 am

April 7 4:44 am delivery

                                                        April 6th Slideshow by Owlfinn
                                                        April 7th Night Slideshow by Owlfinn

                             **Happy Birthday Jesse James- Fifty Days Young Today ***

Decorah Eaglets April 7th

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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