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Friday, May 20, 2011

Night of stunt owls and standoffs (and a few love games, or a "lease disagreement!"

Coach30's May 20th slideshow: Dale Defends the Box !
Another "First" at the Hideout last evening: Standoff behaviours, Stare Offs and a Third Owl getting into the mix.. Roy climbs the tree to meet The Love of his Life Limb to Limb, and more !
8:25 Owl arrives, Roy goes to the door, attempts to mate/ and or push her out.. and she flies off
8:29 She returns, enters the box, has a conversation with with Roy, telling him she's Eggnant (tm Lv Owls)
..............by 9:30 at least 4 visits from Dale (?)
9:45 on: Time to play Name That Owl !
"Stunt/ Tree Owl" watching Roy at the box, Roy silent and pensive to 10:30 or so
Roy decides to climb the tree limbs and sits on the lower branch from the owl !
11 pm altercation after 45 minute standoff, on top of the box, another one on the Hitching Post moments later..
Both owls fly off, at 11:30 an owl returns, positions on the left side of The Hideout porch, and sits silently.. who is this owl? We don't know !
11:49 Owl roosting outside was NOT roy, as Roy has just returned. Owl on porch outside, again.. Roy inside, not calling..
Midnight: Roy silent in the box, and Owl on porch at doorway.. To be continued!
Most probably, what appears to be altercations are the next stages of Love Games.. its all new to us ! Fighting or Frolicking? Stay tuned!

Another altercation after one a.m, where Roy is in the box, and Dale defends her territory, see coach's link above!

Dale tells Roy she is Eggnant (Tm Lvowls)

Coach30's screenshot of Dale versus Unknown Female- Roy in the Box

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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