July 30 to July 31st- 1,236,697 Views and rising !
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Hideout has exceeded 1 million views !
Overnight includes 8 treats!
8:23 mouse; 8:57 gopher, 9:19 mouse to Belle directly, 9:29 Dale returned from flyabout with treat, 10:20 ROUS (Rodent of Unusual Size), and on 7-31-11 at 12:03 a.m. Dale returned from a flyabout with another treat - big gopherish thing!- Couleedam Also noted by Betty: 1:48 AM large mouse or rat? 2:43 AM BIG gopher 4:23 AM large mouse or rat
Re: the last egg: There is only a very very small possibility left.. since we've already had "Dudley" over at the Owl Box, we will name this little fella "Fred" or "Freddie" (courtesy of Hummerdad)....
horku
see oval owl hork
a mouse leaves by the same door
repurposed as shag.
Hootowlgal
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| Oy.. so I had to gulp the second mouse too? |
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| Dale brings in her own gopher July 30- screenshot by NCwatcher |
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| ROUS from Roy at 1:49 am- passed to Belle Starr Screenshot by TweetKathleen |
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| July 31 5:30 am Belle guards Freddie |
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| Roy walks the line.. from the photo effects creations of VioletMoon |
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| July 31 9:30 am |
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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