Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/12 to 8/13 Just The Factz Overnight Report: ELEVEN (11) 7 by Roy, 4 by Dale!**3 treats to Belle, 4 treats to Pearl and 4 mice to Boone! Dale has been on flyabout since 12:23 am PDT

Saturday, August 13, 2011

8/12 to 8/13 Just The Factz Overnight Report: ELEVEN (11) 7 by Roy, 4 by Dale!**3 treats to Belle, 4 treats to Pearl and 4 mice to Boone! Dale has been on flyabout since 12:23 am PDT

5:49am Delivery by Dale to Boone...

Dale brings in a late morning treat and Boone is the victor !

MUST SEE FOOTAGE- A.M. TREAT TUG OF WAR

Slideshow by Owlfinn

DodgerGirl's Overnight Wrapup

20:06 Dale with food (mouse to Pearl)

20:07 Roy with food (vole to Belle)

20:13 Roy with food (mouse to Pearl)

21:49 Roy with food (mouse to Boone)

22:59 Roy with food (gopher to Belle)

23:18 Dale with food (mouse to Pearl)

23:34 Dale with food (mouse to Boone)

23:52 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)

23:54 Roy with food (mouse to Boone)

02:58 Roy with food (vole to Belle)

Flyabouts:

20:00--20:06

20:06--22:57

22:57--23:18

23:18--23:34

23:34--00:22

00:23--

04:06--5:53

as of Midnight Update: What Excitement so far!!

August 12th: Midnight Roy delivers a glowy eyed treat- Screenshot by Couleedam

Deliveries = NINE (9) so far!!! Pearl 4, Belle 2, and Boone 3.... Hurray!! Roy (6) Dale (3)

10:58 Treat from Dale, screenshot by Couleedam

Dale on Lookout at Midnight

Boone gets the first mouse of the night down, backwards!
Hilarious Video by TweetKathleen, thank you !

Sheesh.. four mice and he's STILL squawking!
(screenie and funny by Hundon01

August 12 Slideshow by Owlfinn

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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