8/5 to 8/6- TEN (10) overnight treats-- Pearl's "big" gulp, and Boone nom noms ! Happy Birthday Belle- 3 weeks old today!!
Just the Factz Overnight Report by Tresbien: Treats = TEN(10), 8 delivered by Roy, 2 by Dale. All Chowed down! Dale's flyabouts = 6.
Treat times: 20:22, 20:50, 23:14, 00:02, 00:23 (Dale with food ) 00:30, 01:30, 3:32 4:52, 5:23 am
Flyabouts: 20:40--21:47, 21:57--23:13, 23:17--00:23, 00:27--00:57, 01:56--02:39 Thank you Dodgers and Mod Team!
Boone received individuOWLized attention from Dale and had several good feedings, squawking furiously and gulping fur and huge chunks while Dale chittered! Dodgers notes an audible squirtz from Boonez as well... Late morning delivery from Roy was shared by Dale and Boone as well..
Pearl swallows a Gopher
Fred The Good Egg
He was just known as Fred, a simple egg
Until he got his new suit, of red and blue plaid
Then he got noticed and lots of respect
Cause what is better than a Dud
Than an Egg that's all dressed.
by TwoOwlWingz
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| Fred the Good Egg- Screenshot and poem by TwoOwlWingz |
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| August 5th Dale leaves for flyabout Screenshot by Susanhu |
***The GoogAbout: Chatter KathyGoog's Adventures heading across the US!
Day 3~Left IL, got thru MO, IA & spent the night just over the line in Sioux Falls, SD. Saw lots of 'new' things, such as eye masks on horses, police on motorcycles, Arch of St. Louis, rural streets named just with a letter of the alphabet (J, K, DD, A, Z, YY and so on).
Our mood went downhill fast as our route attempted to follow the border of MO & IA, along the Missouri River. The river continues to overflow its banks, flooding farms, businesses and roads. Our hearts were sad to see the devastation that is still ongoing.
Day 4~Entire Day spent crossing SD; what a beautiful state! Huge farm after farm with humungous fields of hay, corn, soybeans & sunflowers. Went to Mt Rushmore and a quick moving thunderstorm showed up during our tour. Lightning was fantastic but raindrops were so big they were almost painful. Staying tonite in Custer, SD.
Have been in 12 states in 4 days~slowing down now; there's more to see.
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Today's Parlor Word: "Horkstipated" Thank you HootOwlGal !
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
Roy and Dales Eggs Clutch 2
Egg #1 1/19 7:15 am
Egg #2 1/21 8:13 am
Egg #3 1/23 9:33 am
Egg #4 1/25 1:22 pm
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http://www.cafepress.com/theowltlaws.581308640 2012 Calendar Belle Starr 7/15, 10:23 am. Pearl 7/20, 3:53 am. Boone 7/24, 10:11am Wyatt 7/25 6:35 pm, Zee 7/28 1:10 pm (eggs 2 & 4 non viable) Wyatt passed 8/3, 11:15 pm. Zee 8/4, Boone 9/2
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