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Friday, August 19, 2011
8/18 to 8/19-9:19 Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Total Treats NINE (9) (Roy 6, 3 Dale): Belle 3 voles 1 gopher; Pearl 2 voles; Boone 2 voles, 1 mouse. TY DG and posse!
DodgerGirl's overnight treat report:
19:54 unknown parent with food (vole to Belle)
20:28 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)
21:13 Dale with food (gopher to Belle)
22:36 Dale with food (vole to Belle)
23:48 Roy with food (vole to Boone)
00:47 Dale with food (mouse to Boone)
01:43 unknown parent with food (vole to Belle)
02:01 unknown parent with food (vole to Pearl)
02:36 Dale with food (vole to Boone) Visits: 03:29--03:34 Pantry Check
August 18: 2:36 am Dale delivers a Vole to Boone: Owlfinn's Video
DodgerGirl's Days of Owl Lives: Episode 5: (need DG DOWL graphic!) Roy kisses Dale on the beak before leaving the palm tree. He circles
the sky, his eyes fixed on the hillside below. He knows it’s going to
be another night of high expectations. His three beautiful children
wait for him to deliver dinner and late-night snacks. He knows he can
do it, but the pressure is mounting. Oh, there’s a nice fat vole. Dang
it, how did he find that rock so fast!! Roy continues to soar… He spots
a gopher in the distance. His sonar zones in. There’s no escaping
capture now. Roy lowers his landing gear, his mighty talons
outstretched. With no time to waste, he silently makes his final
approach, snatching the gopher from the earth below. The gopher never
stood a chance, not with the mighty Roy on his tail (literally). To the
box!! Roy swoops in and places the gopher in his daughter Pearl’s beak,
much to the loud dismay of Boone and Belle. Roy repeats this routine
for the rest of the evening. On the 4th return, he was mobbed so badly
he had no idea who grabbed the treasured vole. It wasn’t until his paid
informant, Mothra, later glided by him that he learned it was his
beloved son, Boone, who had reaped the benefits of his master hunting
skills. Roy takes off back into the moonlit sky, alway searching,
always hunting, always being a dad…
Boone gets a little Hissy at Mom during Pantry Check August 19th: Screenshot by Lonestar
The Getaway: Where Roy and Dale sometimes spend their day
Lone(*)'s word of the day was Tapetum. The tapetum lucidum (Latin: "bright tapestry", plural tapeta lucida) is a layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrate animals.[2] It lies immediately behind or sometimes within the retina. It reflects visible light back through the retina, increasing the light available to the photoreceptors. This improves vision in low-light conditions, but can cause the perceived image to be blurry from the interference of the reflected light.
The "tapetum" makes owls' eyes bright. It helps us see them in the night. If human eyes this tissue had, We could really drive our neighbors mad~! #- FloridaSkye
Belle says I'm an Umbrella
Screenshot by Hundon01
Fritzi und Martha: Igel's Hedgehogs
"Here's looking at you Kid" screenshot and caption by Hundon
Mouse to Boone- screenshot by TweetKathleen
Wingz August 19th
Pardon me.. How Rude.. August 19th
Boone does his wingercizing: Screenshot by Hundon
Belle snuck out to get a Tattoo - Looks like an Owl ! August 19th
Screenshot by EmmieJan
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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
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In Memory of McGee 2010.. 2012
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