Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/21 to 8/22- Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats 10 (6 Dale, 4 Roy): 5 for Belle; 2 for Pearl, 3 for Boone. Dale had a busy night of hunting and brought voles and mice to the hideout. Pioneers happily huddled.***!**-V-Owl visits at 3:19 am!-(or..is it a Parent??) YOU decide !: )

Monday, August 22, 2011

8/21 to 8/22- Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats 10 (6 Dale, 4 Roy): 5 for Belle; 2 for Pearl, 3 for Boone. Dale had a busy night of hunting and brought voles and mice to the hideout. Pioneers happily huddled.*!-V-Owl visits at 3:19 am!-(or..is it a Parent??) YOU decide !: )

CouleeDam reports in with:
8:17 Vole to Belle (Dale)
11:06 treat to Belle (Dale)
11:26 treat to Boone (Dale)
12:45 mouse to Boone (Dale)
TweetKathleen picks up the gauntlet with:!

01:22 Roy mouse to Belle
01:59 Dale mouse to Belle
02:14 Roy Vole to Pearl
02:28 Dale vole to Boone

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweetkathleen/6068072827/in/photostream
All treats are on Tweet's photostream !

Hundon continues with:

2.50 Dale to Belle
3.08 Parent to Pearl

Total Ten (10) Belle 5; Boone 3, Pearl 2

Visitor (V-Owl)- 3.19 - 3.34

Owl arrived on hitching post; flew to mister then to porch and stayed for several minutes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/sets/72157627217485892/detail/

How cute is this? Aug 21 screenshot by Sher67

Couleedam took this footage of a helicopter getting water yesterday with a bambi bucket! Coulee ! What were you doing there??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/6067809731/
Fire at Washington Flats by Couleedam

August 21 Line Dancing by EmmieJan

August 21st- Belles mad dash for the Vole- Outstanding Screenshot by TweetKathleen

Tweetkathleen's Photostream

Q: Is there a Visitor Owl? Will it hurt the babies?

Many are concerned about the Visitor Owl? Is it a Visitor, or a Parent?
Will it bring harm to the owlets? The answer is no. If the Visitor (if indeed it IS a Visitor, )were to be a threat, it would be chased away.
In the Bear and WIllow clutch, we had a "Nanny" owl. This owl was presumed to be the only surviving owlet from Willow's previous clutch. This "Nanny" owl even brought treats to the babies! Owls do live in a communal sense.. they allow other owls to caretake their young as we saw in Willow and Bear: http://www.willowyview.blogspot.com/
So nothing to worry about. If this visitor were a threat, Roy and Dale would take care of business.

August 21st My Sister, the headrest... screenshot by Tresbien

August 21 Molly at Sunset Screenshot by Tresbien

Video should say 2011, oops

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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