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Friday, April 1, 2011

March 30- April 1

Do Drop Inn Total Treat Count - 14 treats -1 vole, 6 mice, 4 gophers, 1 Kangaroo Rat, 2 unknown (including Flat treat on floor)Activities included!
______LvOwl Reports_______
9:07- Bonnie - mouse to Billy
9:32 - Bonnie - unknown treat to Billy and shredded off cam in front
9:47 - Clyde - mouse to Jesse
**PBF gulped flat treat from floor then proudly looked at us**
10:09 - Bonnie- mouse to Billy
10:30- Clyde - mouse to Jesse
10:45 - Bonnie - kangaroo rat - Billy to door then Bonnie dropped it on porch
10:56- Clyde - mouse to Annie
11:03 - Clyde - gopher to Jesse
11:30 - Clyde - gopher to PBF
Clyde flew to Lookout and left at 12:27
                      Exciting BBB (Big Bold Billy) Note from LvOwls:
At 11:57, Billy went to door and looked out and Clyde made a few noises-- Hummerdad pointed out that Daddy told Billy to be careful, then Billy reached over, grabbed the kangaroo rat from the porch and brought it inside!!.

**OCG adjusted the inside cam so we could see the door and front area better !!

12:45-1:00 -- very exciting time to watch -- Billy was at the door and half way out. Meanwhile, Bonnie was on the perch and Dad flew to the Lookout. Bonnie flew over to the Lookout and both Clyde and Bonnie took off out of the cam's site. Billy continued to look out while bobbing his head. He kept looking up, so we thought Bonnie and Clyde must have been on the house roof. Billy gave up and went back inside to the corner. The other owlets watched Billy intently the whole time.

3:54 Possible delivery

                                         April 1st Slideshow by Owlfinn

Lvowls Notes: OwlCamGuy has added a Ladder - Owlets can safely climb up! Yay OCG!

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2:00 pm EST: we interrupt this Owltlaw Broadcast with a fantastic screenshot of the Decorah Eagles by Tresbien (and an added caption by Fawnyb)

Stunning Decorah's Beautiful Eagles on Hatch Day April 1st- 130,000 approx viewers 2 pm EST
Ustream-SOS!!!- We love them, but more bandwith please-- Our Owl Chats keep crashing!! (sad face)

Billy early am Talons on Doorway! screenshot by Tresbien

Almost out! screenshot by Tresbien

March 31st Owltlaw Lineup- screenshot by Cowliflower

March 31 7pm Owltlaw stretch by Couleedam

Owlfin's Hideout Slideshow March 29th to March 31st

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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