a bushel and a "peck"!
A romantic, Tootsie free night in Chula Vista.. Dale remained in the box to eat her "treats", both shredding and gulping a variety of mousies and gophers..Short flights in and out of the box, and Romantic Roy has stepped up the KissyFace, and is almost learning how to give Dale the treat each time! Roy seems to be wonderful at beaking off the First Treat of the night, but holds on to the other treats, while Dale looks at him with patience (perhaps a bit of an Eyeroll) until Roy settles the treat into the pantry.
At around 11 pm, intense floor scratching, a little digging AND a wall peck/dig assured chatters and an almost too overjoyed Moderator that an egg may be on the way !
SueH has kindly offered to re-take guesses (one more guess only please) ! When you are in chat please either pass your "new guess" along for an egg, or to a Moderator who will give the information for SueH's eggie chart !
Roy returned around 1:30 am wet from a refreshing bath and Dale as observed by chat seems to have Pre -Eggy Mode down to a science! What will today bring as The Hideout Turns!
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| Our favorite "Brit" Hundon noticed Dale's markings looked like an Owlet (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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