Belle Starr, Pearl Hart and Daniel Boone July 24th 4 treats, no waiting!
Roy delivered 4 times, a variety of smaller treats (BugGirl needed to pause and take out her magnifying glass) and large gophers... Boone settled in quite well on his first day in the Pioneer Gang, nestled in between his two sisters Belle and Pearl.. While on Flyabout, Dale wondered why OCG was standing in Her backyard...
VERY exciting news from OCG.. using donation resources plus his own, new equipment has been ordered for The Hideout and a camera for The Lookout. If you haven't donated yet, please visit OCG's website or click on the above donate button!
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| Power surge causes camera tilt... fixed by OCG- Dale on alert A zoomed view of our new family |
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Screenshot by Cowliflower
Belle does her best pancake imitation
Left to Right: Belle, Boone (Day/Night 1), and Pearl (far right) while Dale is on 31 minute flyabout July 24th |
Dale observes OCG from the Lookout
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| Roy brings the third treat of the evening, a large gopher and gets a kiss |
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| Have you met my son, Boone? Roy, July 25th, 3am |
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
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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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