Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/15-8/16 Just The Factz Fling & Fly Report: Eight (8) 1/2) treats, Belle: 2 voles,1/2 Flat Ratsky, Pearl 3 voles, 1 mouse and Boone 2 voles. Food comas and happy huddles ensued.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

8/15-8/16 Just The Factz Fling & Fly Report: Eight (8) 1/2) treats, Belle: 2 voles,1/2 Flat Ratsky, Pearl 3 voles, 1 mouse and Boone 2 voles. Food comas and happy huddles ensued.

***August 16: The Pioneer Gang is: Belle Starr, 31 days old, Pearl Hart, 27 days old and Daniel Boone, 23 days old.

Treat count as of 5:52 am: Belle 2, Pearl 4, Boone 2, Fred: Nuttin Pantry: 1 Flat Ratly (All good size prey!)
Belle went into Pantry Mode and put Flat Ratly delivered by Dale in the corner.

DodgerGirl's Overnight Report (thank you for your long hours and dedication, Dodgers!)

20:04 Dale with food (vole to Pearl)

20:06 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)

01:46 Roy with food (vole to Belle)

02:04 Roy with food (vole to Belle)

02:12 Dale with food (mouse to Pearl)

02:22 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)

02:56 Dale with food (vole to Boone)-------this vole has never missed a meal, nice and pudgy

03:00 Roy with food (vole to Boone)--------this vole was the previous vole's older and bigger brother

05:17 Dale with food (rat hindquarters to Belle, yet to be eaten)

Visits:

20:55 Dale inside for pantry check

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6048801385/in/photostream (rat delivery, kids in the middle of a post-feast nap) Thanks Tres!!!!

zozuzu notes that "the Boonelet has some nice tail stubble.. "Arch notes Boone getting two treats with a Capital T in a very short period of time...
Hundon points out that worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair... it gives you something to do, but gets you nowhere"...and hooteh points out Boom Boone has progressed very nicely from sketti to full treats.. and Janlyn has stopped worrying. !!
If another treat is delivered now?
Dodgers notes:" they will grab it enthusiastically out of habit, then realize their eyes are bigger than their stomach. They will proceed to play with it like peas on a 5-year-olds plate..."

How do we start to distinquish Belle and Pearl? By Facial Disk:

Belle has a darker rim and is rounder, more heart shaped. Pearl's is still white rimmed. (Thank you Dodgers)!

Rickieray is today's Typo Queen (Hundonq) Thank you Emmie!

Beautiful wings by Emmijan

Roy and Belle Discuss Flatly Ratley

Belle contemplates Flatly Ratley

Postscript: Flat Ratley was consumed around 9 am, by Belle. RIP Flat Ratley1. We look forward to Flat Ratley 2...

Screenshot by Rennais
From (mjr426) some photos from owls at the Endless Mountains Nature Center .. a wonderful place near his home-" Injured animals in the area are treated at a raptor center in the Poconos. Some of those who are too badly injured to be returned to the wild are taken to EMNC where they can live in relative safety. They also participate in educational programs for young and old.- Thank you Mike!

Rebecca Lesko, Director

"Puff" was an injured red-phase eastern screech owl. She passed away in October 2009

Owl turns to have his portait taken at the Endless Mountains Nature Center..

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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