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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

8/30 to 8/31 Just the Factz Fling and Fly Report: Treats: 7 Belle-2 Pearl-3 Boone-2

Our Pioneer Gang today: Belle 46 days, Pearl 42 days Boone 38 days young
Happy Six Week Birthday Pearl !**
Overnight Treat Report:
10:09 Dale to Pearl; 10:37 Dale to Pearl; 10:43 Dale to Belle; 11:43 Dale to Boone; 11:57 Roy to Boone (but Belle stole it); 108 a.m. Dale to Pearl- thank you Moderators !

Special Note to Chat on OB Closing: Special Entry later today
The OB closing is a hard time, particularly for those of us who have watched from the first week. Our policy here at the Hideout is full respect and love for The Royals. They will resume their well deserved personal lives and travels. Running an Owl Box is very hard work.

Please keep all comments regarding The Owl Box positive in our Parlor. Negative comments made toward the closing of the Owl Box will be asked to leave immediately. This is non negotiable. Running a chat room, for our Moderators, is not all HoneyandRoses. We want everyone to share their thoughts, but we won't abide any Owl Box Negativity. Thank you for understanding-If you wish to discuss this, please no not bother our hard working Moderators. Email me at anjuliz44@aol.com
Angowleyez-

39 Steps of Belles Wingz- screenshot by Hundon

Pioneers Growing up- screenshot by Tresbien

Belle: Talon on Hideout Wall

8/31 Treat to Boone 1:45 am Screenshot by Coach30

Please visit our Updated Frequents Asked Questions (FAQ) link here:
http://owltlaws.blogspot.com/p/faq-frequently-asked-questions-under.html

We call the deliveries at this point Fling and Flies.. It is difficult to see which parent it is, and who gets the food at times, as it happens quickly ! Is it a Fling and Fly really, or a hand off? Notes from Coach30!

"All the treats are actually "handed off" to the owlets. In all the chaos it looks like they're tossing them inside but Roy and Dale make sure that one of the owlets is taking it from their beak. Sometimes they reach into the box for the hand off (when the owlets are caught off guard) and sometimes the owlets grab it at the door as they wait near the opening."

Example from Coach30 on Boone getting a delivery, Direct Beak off from Roy

Another Beak off delivery to Boone: screenshot Coach30

Videos from Owlfinn (Owlbert) (please bookmark and subscribe to her Youtube channel !)
Belle gets a Vole, Boone gets mad
Dale brings a mouse, Boone does a quick grab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONIIp0NPVU&feature=uploademail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmhIqhZWEYA&feature=uploademail
Treat for Boone at 2:16 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DV69Jf84CY&feature=uploademail

Very cool capture of Parent flying behind the Hideout last night (at 11 seconds on video)

It is official. Hundon has caught the shot. Pearl.. is a ball...

I Am Not A Ball- Ashley 9/2010, by Hundon

comparison photo.. Hundon's famous I am Not A Ball photo of Ashley

The Story of the Owltlaw Fred

The Owltlaw Fred

To The Hideout fled,

Hoping to stay out of sight

Of the lawmen in black,

Who were hard on his track,

Wanting to stop his flight.

But the story, I'm told,

As was heard in times old,

Is that Fred fled before daylight.

And no trace of him was found,

Not even tracks on the ground.

Fred simply disappeared from sight.

-- FloridaSkye

Little faces at the door;
Wonder who they're waiting for?
Mom or poppa with a mouse?
That would just bring down the house!-SLCbirder:

Whitedog's HummingBird Frenzy, Arizona

Phoons (John Darrow) repairs a cable.. what can't this guy do?

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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