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Friday, July 15, 2011

We have First Pip!

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PIP 4:30 am July 16th

Pip Watch at 4:10 pm screenshot by Tresbien

July 15th First Pip Closeup shot by Tweetkathleen

First Pip detected, second from Left.. not the smudge, the indentation- Screenie by Tresbien

The owlet makes a hole in the egg called a "pip" with a sharp tooth, called the egg tooth on its beak. After that, it can take up to 24 hours for the owlet to appear.
As the owlet prepares to hatch it has to work its way all around the shell breaking it with the egg tooth, while it does this the turning shuts off the blood vessels and it is absorbing the yolk sac.

A poem from FloridaSkye:
The moon is full and is so bright.
Dale bathes in its pure light.
Roy has flown to get a treat
And bring it to his Dale so sweet.

11: pm update-- still waiting on egg # 1

Congrats to chatter Cory812 on the birth of his Son this evening, Cameron Michael ! 9lbs 23 oz!!

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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