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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

an evening in the TwOWLight Zone-- or Poop on a stick

Keep watching.. will you be here when I decide its time for Eggie # 3? Dale, 10 am June 21st
POSTSCRIPT: This photo was taken 3 minutes before egg 3 3

TechnOWLogy, meet The Parlor! Frustrating yet Hysterical evening for chatters as RockBuddy (**Rockbuddy is a Ustream Administrator**tm Hummerdad) communicated with Moderators to advise the Server had split five ways into next Sunday.. Chat found the same scroll repeated, over and over, or found themselves in a net sector with just certain chatters...
Moderators Angowleyez, Tweet, Couleedam repeatedly removed an Addelena's *poop-on-a-Stick* post.. (never thought a Troll would get a blog credit )
Not only could you pm yourself, you found yourself answering back fifteen minutes.

Roy decided to take advantage of the confusion by delivering several treats during the June Cosmic Split, adding to the confusion as some saw the treat delivered then, and some saw it fifteen minutes later! Hummerdad made himself Surrogate King of the Moderators, and StatOr made him a crown a sceptre! If you left chat, you returned to find your one hour posts rolling by...

Roy delivered at least five treats, not letting the Cosmic Chaos get in the way of Super Daddy Mode!

Will today bring another egg?! Stay tuned>
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Roy and first night with the two eggs...

It is interesting that Roy shows occasional interest in the eggs. He even touched the eggs gently with his talons last night. It is interesting too, that other times he is just the opposite-- like one night he came in with Dale on a flyabout, took one look at the egg and turned and couldn't get out fast enough. The interest (by the male in the eggs) is not true in all the boxes-- for instance McGee has always been the notorious "quick in and quick out of the box" type of guy. I think that is one thing we have learned from watching so many owlboxes-- that things like this are individual behavioral differences in owl pairs and individuals. And, there is probably much more variation in behavior than has been indicated in previous studies etc. We could certainly start writing a "new book" with things we are seeing here at The Hideout!

LoneStar

4:15pm CDT

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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