"Lookout".. it's Roy!
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Oh Boy, Roy! Bonding on The Lookout June 2nd 2:40 am Screenshot by Owlfinn
Dale asks: "Did you peep at us", a minute later
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No eggs yet, but Roy has stepped up the treat delivery, at least three noted overnight, with the first delivered Beak to Beak to Dale in the box, hurray Roy-you ARE reading the manual!
Many lulls outside the box, yet chat was active and fun as OCG joined us and we discussed everything from Roy guest appearing on America's Got Talent (KS was afraid OCG would have to take the box with him-He only sings to 1 wall) to Trademarks (™), Vegas vacations and "Name the White Stick in the Box"... (Thessada thought perhaps a Chopstick for fancy gopher dining, but Gleasontassi thought it was an "Eggnantcy Test" ! )
Araionna still pines for a Bunny and has renamed Roy's mousie treats a "Small Small Small Bunny (SSSB™)..
No signs of a third owl reported so far.. Will Roy continue to step up to the plate? Will Dale stay in the box today and start to plan the nursery? Will we run out of things to talk about in chat? (never) Stay Tuned for continued adventures in As The Hideout Turns...
(New photo from Coach30 coming soon ! :D)
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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