Stand/Stareoff at the Hideout Corral ~
May 23_ 24th Slideshow by Owlfin !
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| May 23 10:48 pm After more than an hour Standoff/Stareoff, Dale (?)re- enters the box |
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| Any ideas? |
8:55 Dale (?) enters box, Roy kickboxes her, she leaves
9 00 beak clucking and kicks her out -defense mode
***Possibly two owls were on the lookout****
923 female looking in door again ! Standoff continues at 9:41
Twoclubs thinks Roy learned a new dance step: clogging TweetKat thought it was his vulture imtiation! HD thought it was the MacOWLrena!
The standoff/stareoff started at 9:08 pm --at 10:33 Roy blows past Dale and disappears!
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| Roy flies off after long stare down, most chatters did not see it! Beautifully captured by Owlfin |
Returns a moment later and knocks her off the porch, (he may have been trying to bond) or used a military spy tactic !
10:41 Roof owl returns, Roy singing in box
10:43 Roof/Porch owl returns for another Stareoff
10:48 Owl (Dale?)enters the box, Roy attempts at bonding, and they move to separate corners.
11:00 Roy jumps at her, she flies off
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| Roy charges, or attempts at bonding |
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| Stare/Standoff at the One Hour Mark- |
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| 11:30 to Midnight, Second Stareoff (with two attempted bondings so far) |
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| Dale (?) tiptoes and steals a 4 am treat (coach30 screenshot) |
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| 4:11 Roy on Roof, Owl flyby over his head (screenshot by Coach30) |
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| Bonding (?) attempt on porch May 24th 4:21 am screenshot by Coach30 |
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
Roy and Dales Eggs Clutch 2
Egg #1 1/19 7:15 am
Egg #2 1/21 8:13 am
Egg #3 1/23 9:33 am
Egg #4 1/25 1:22 pm
Banner Info
http://www.cafepress.com/theowltlaws.581308640 2012 Calendar Belle Starr 7/15, 10:23 am. Pearl 7/20, 3:53 am. Boone 7/24, 10:11am Wyatt 7/25 6:35 pm, Zee 7/28 1:10 pm (eggs 2 & 4 non viable) Wyatt passed 8/3, 11:15 pm. Zee 8/4, Boone 9/2
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