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Thursday, June 9, 2011

The heat is on...

in many parts of the chatters worlds today... Stay Cool please .. !

A peaceful night in Chula Vista, with long flyabouts as Dale and Roy enjoy the comforts of OCG's beautiful backyard..
A minor possible sighting of Dale perturbed by a Third Owl.. no confirmation yet...
No eggies yet.. Will today be the day?More updates to follow throughout the day !

Coach30 arrived safely back home from Japan for a brief vacation .. (yay), Julie-1 has earned the honorary "z" to follow her nickname, along with each hork being named JULIE as well...

IheartHD will be starting a fundraiser shortly to support the growing number of Hummerdad fans applying ......CK has expressed concern we are in Owlet Drought.. Hurry Dale ! Please don't keep the kitten waiting ! On a final note, the Owl Watching internet is in danger of coming to a grinding halt if Couleedam doesn't return online soon ! :o She's having way too fun vacationing.
If you see a Coulee sighting, please report in to the Blog Administrator !

If you haven't checked Google today, please do... much fun as you can create a song and send them to your friends all day on a virtual guitar.. Thanks so much for Lonestar for giving us this heads up !

Note for am viewers: OCG is resetting cams for maintenance and sound, may be down 30 mins to an hour at some point this morning. Thanks OCG for everything you do ! (hoootie hoo)

Owfinn's Slideshow June 7th to 8th

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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