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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

8/10 Happy Birthday Pearl ! 3 weeks old today* (please see prev. posts)

The GoogAbout- Adventures with Kathy Goog as she travels across the states with Hubby!

Day 8~One full week on the road is behind us! Taking back roads out of MT passing many log cabins & farm buildings where everything looks as if they were built in Davy Crockett's era; most are abandoned. Most new homes are also built of logs and farms seem to be split equally between horses and beef, at least in this area. We cross the Continental Divide just before MT/ID border, at the border cross into PDT, and loose cell phone service, it seems for good! As we enter ID at the Bitterroot National Forest there is a squiggly arrow sign with "next 99 miles" written under it; seems Lewis & Clark took the path of least resistance without thinking of future cars trying to follow their route! We finally get to Moscow/Deary ID where we're spending next 5 days visiting youngest son/my Sister. I won't plan on posting again until Monday, when we are back out on the road, headed to Seattle. Peace

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The Movie Premiere party at The Owl Box was a smashing success! The Redcarpet included Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Queen Elizabeth, William and Kate, George Clooney, Dolly Parton and Donna and Carlos in their Evening Attire

To order the new Molly Movie, please go to http://www.austin4media.com
DVDs will start shipping out next week, including a new song by BarlyCorn and footage from Field Tripz and C3

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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