Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/28 to 8/29 5:30 am update EIGHT (8) Treats: Belle 2, Pearl 3, Boone 3

Sunday, August 28, 2011

8/28 to 8/29 5:30 am update EIGHT (8) Treats: Belle 2, Pearl 3, Boone 3

9:39 Dale to Pearl; 10:15 Dale to Pearl (10:17 Belle stole pearl's treat) 10:28 Dale to Pearl 1043 Roy to Belle, 11:02 Roy to Boone 2:10 am Roy to Belle

Today our Pioneers are Belle Starr, 44, Pearl Hart, 40, Daniel Boone 36
****Happy 40th Birthday Pearl Hart today !**** Blog hits the 80,000 mark woo hoo~ Of course 79,000 visits were my revisions: o

What's that OCG guy doing now???

Owlets hissssssing today: OCG added posts and and secured the Hitching Post, preparing for branching and fledge !
Thank you OCG for everything you do !

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Fledge Notes from Tresbien:

Owlets will "branch" at 49 to 54 days in general. This consists of short flights, stomps, hops and skips from the box (Hideout) to the hitching post bars and nearby tree branches. They do practice flights for a few weeks before they go off with their parents to learn hunting. The parents will begin calling to them from outside the box to encourage them to come out. They might encourage them to come out with food and also cut back on food to help them slim down for flight.

Belle gets a treat at 2:10 am.. carries and plays with it til 2:23 am!

HORK in mid cast! Captured from OwlFinn's Video, August 28th

Belle Horks (Casts a Pellet) and then stomps on it

Hork, Step One, captured from OwlFinns Video Aug 28th

Rare VideoFootage! The Elusive Hork, caught by Owlfinn!

Screenshot by FiddlinBiker

Pearl closeup by OCG August 28th 10 pm

COACH30 Screenshot Slideshow including Last Night's Deliveries

Angowleyez moderated the Neighborz party last night and got in trubble for singing OWLful
Thanks OCG for posting the Bail Donation Button!!.. Sure is good to be back out !- <3

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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