Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/19- 8/20 Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: Treats TEN (10) (5 each by Roy and Dale) 2 voles, 1 mouse, 1 gopher to Belle: 3 voles to Pearl, 2 voles to Boone***Rat Albert Removed for Downsizing****Rat returned, to Pearl and later to Belle, making it a 5 treat night for Belle**Happy Birthday Belle, Five Weeks Old******

Saturday, August 20, 2011

8/19- 8/20 Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: Treats TEN (10) (5 each by Roy and Dale) 2 voles, 1 mouse, 1 gopher to Belle: 3 voles to Pearl, 2 voles to Boone*Rat Albert Removed for DownsizingRat returned, to Pearl and later to Belle, making it a 5 treat night for BelleHappy Birthday Belle, Five Weeks Old******

August 20th: The Pioneer Gang is: Belle Starr, 35 days old, Pearl Hart, 31 days old and Daniel Boone, 27 days old. Happy Birthday Belle, Five Weeks Old !

DodgerGirl's Overnight Report:

20:02 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)

20:10 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)

20:28 Dale with food (mouse to Belle)

21:21 Roy with food (vole to Boone)

22:23 Roy with food (vole to Belle)

22:30 Roy with food (vole to Boone)

23:36 Dale with food (gopher to Belle)

01:31 Dale with food (vole to Pearl)

02:14 Dale with food (vole to Belle)

03:53 Dale with food (communal monster-sized rat---still uneaten, later removed)

Visits:

23:07--23:15 Dale on mister to hitching post

05:07 Rat removal for downsizing by Dale

Door Watching and Treats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbaDvW3KKww

Gopher to Belle

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweetkathleen/6061447028/

Belle is a Starr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6059547505/in/photostream

“See, I’ve got wingzz too”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6059045817/in/photostream

Contemplating Raticus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6061844152/in/photostream

Pantry Inspection/Rat Removal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6061949088/in/photostream

*****If anyone has video of 9pm last night, Boone horked and it would be great to see.

Cindy (DodgerGirl1/litlvxn)

Mystery Owl August 19th": She Landed on the Lookout and then the Hitching Post for a few minutes.. owlets hisssssed...

Belle with Ratsketti sippy straw 1:00 pm: Screenshot by VioletMoon

The Tail That Ate Chula Vista (ty DodgersGirl)
(Lonestar notes this is the first time we have had a remaining treat in the pantry)
Post Script: Dale removes Rat Albert at 5:08 am, later consumed by Pearl and Belle

"Mister Owl" August 19th 11pm

A Glimpse at Rat Albert- Or Belle's Nibble Toy--Before Dale takes it away

1:15 pm: MORE UPDATES LATER ON THIS EVENING

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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