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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

8/15 to 8/16 Part Two Happy Birthday EmmieJan!!***(Please see previous post for Overnight and more : )

Boone gets a treat by OwlFinn

Belle finishes off Flat Ratly

August 16: Dale on the Porch by OCG

Emmie's Birthday secret: Screenshot By Hundon

We've waited... we've watched.. She keeps her outstanding Screenshot finger posed.. and finally... it is here..

You remember the infamous I Am Not A Ball...

here is Pearl.....Pearl is Not a Ball

Pearl Is A Ball- Screenshot by Hundon

The GoogAbout- Adventures with KathyGoog and her hubby as they travel the states!

Days 9 thru 13~Wed thru Sun~It was great to have 5 days with my sister & youngest son to eat, visit, eat, relax & eat!

The main news worthy item is that on Wednesday night after dropping our son off at his place, hubby & I were driving back to my sisters house, when the GoogAbout almost came to an abrupt end!! At the exact moment we both caught a glimpse of something to our right, the MOOSE stepped into the road!! Somehow hubby avoided hitting him, while not flipping the SUV!! It was the largest animal we have ever seen outside of a zoo, and made us decide to not drive after dark on this trip if it can be avoided.

Day 14~Monday~Route 26 out of Idaho to Seattle is beautiful; Orchards of grapes, apples, hay fields & humongous cow ranches. Onto Rt 90, there are 2 large wind farms & as we pass Ellensburg we see peaks off in the distance that have runs of snow coming down their face.
We get to the Space Needle

and I see elevators on outside!! I then remember my claustrophobia & fear of heights and almost back out of going up, but this is on my bucket list, so I had to do it. Afterwards, we encounter our very first traffic jam in nearly 4,000 miles! It took us 32 minutes to get to hotel that was 10 mins away on GPS!

Oh, little Boone, we see your head.
Help, I'm squished and squashed, he said.
My sisters use me for their bed,
And hold me back from being fed.

-- FloridaSkye

Aug 16th: Dale on the Lookout by OCG

August 16 good Morning says Boone

KristianSand by Hundon

Boone under Big Sister- Screenshot by Emmiejan

Flat Ratley is gone... Screenshot by Hundon.. (Long Live Flat Ratly)!

Screenshot by Cowliflower

Aug 16 Family Photo by Hundon

Aug 16 Nap time for Boone Screenshot by TwoOwlWingz

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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