Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/20 to 8/21 Just The Factz Fling & Fly Report: Treats SIX (6) 2 voles for Pearl**2 Voles, 1 mouse, 1 gopher for Boone, who is gaining on the BOT ageing client!**** Happy Birthday Boone 4 Weeks Young Today !!***

Sunday, August 21, 2011

8/20 to 8/21 Just The Factz Fling & Fly Report: Treats SIX (6) 2 voles for Pearl2 Voles, 1 mouse, 1 gopher for Boone, who is gaining on the BOT ageing client! Happy Birthday Boone 4 Weeks Young Today !!*

Boone's mouse and Peekabout video by TweetKathleen, 1:27am.. (Notice how quick Boone is snagging the treat from Belle ).. and looking "almost" all the way out of the door at 28 days ! oh my

Roy on the Hitching Post, OCG takes his pic: Chat thought it was a Mystery Owl:

2nd treat of night, Roy to Pearl screenshot by Couleedam

First treat of the night, Roy to Pearl

DodgerGirl's Overnight Report:

20:00 Dale with food (vole to Pearl)

20:03 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)

22:39 Dale with food (vole to Boone)

01:27 Roy with food (mouse to Boone)

02:28 Roy with food (vole to Boone)

03:48 ? with food (rodent to Boone)

Visits:

00:28--Dale on camera perch

Boone the Protector

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/6063781705/in/set-72157626847618341/

Belle’s Wing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/6064098801/in/set-72157626847618341

Boone’s Mousie 8/21/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZVCN4FIdW4

Boone Squawks, Belle Waits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6064917730/in/photostream
Special Note from Lonestar re: Belle (and no treats last night): "Please remember that Belle is at maximum weight now, and is not in the super-growth stage, and will require much less food."

Yoohoo Im back here !! screenshot by Emmijan

Mr and Mrs Cornwall by Lady Laura, Barn Owl Trust

Who was the mystery owl? We are pretty sure the Owl on the HP was Roy.. We "think" the owl that visited the babies was Dale.. but was it?

"Mystery Owl" Photo by OCG August 20th: (Sure looks like Roy !)

Belle whispers Happy Birthday, but Im eating first tonight:

MEMORY LANE: May 29th: Molly The Owl, Clutch One: Max,Pattison, Austin and Wesley: Screenshot by Beantowner a great Owl Box Moderator

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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