Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 8/9 to 8/10- Just the Factz Overnight: **EIGHT (8) assorted voles, mice and gophers, including 1 BIG treat. 4 flyabouts. ****Boone downed his first mouse! ***Happy Birthday Pearl- 3 Weeks Today!!

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

8/9 to 8/10- Just the Factz Overnight: EIGHT (8) assorted voles, mice and gophers, including 1 BIG treat. 4 flyabouts. Boone downed his first mouse! *Happy Birthday Pearl- 3 Weeks Today!!

DodgerGirl's Overnight Delivery wrapup:

20:12 Roy with food (gopher to Belle)
20:40 Roy with food (vole to Pearl)
20:57 Roy with food (mouse )
22:39 Roy with food (treat to Belle)
23:01 Roy with food (gopher----still in box)
02:00 Roy with food (treat to Pearl)
02:25 Roy with food (mouse to Belle)
02:44 Dale with food (massive white-footed deer mouse----multiple meals for Boone and still in box)
Flyabouts:
20:08--21:58
22:03--00:27
00:28--02:44
04:33-
Thank you DodgerGirl and LvOwls for overnight hours!
Boone enjoyed several feedings of a humungous White Footed Deer Mouse.

Dale returned from 4:33 flyabout at 5:46...with a big treat! BIG!

Dale returns August 10 5:46 am with a HUGE treat! Screenshot by Tresbien

8 pm Treat for Belle- Video by Owlfinn
Please Bookmark and peruse all of Owlfinn's outstanding videos- She captures hours and hours of overnight activity, thank you Owlfinn!!

Screenshot by Cowliflower

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/6028832495/in/photostream/

Please click above to see EmmieJans's series of shots for this monumental event!

BOONE DOWN THE HATCHES HIS FIRST MOUSE!!!- thank you Owlfinn!

Observations from Cowliflower:

Now that we are all seeing that Boone will go after food and down a whole mouse it seems like we are approaching the time we have to be braced for Dale roosting out of the box in the daytime. Molly started roosting out of the box when Wesley was 22 days old, after he downed a whole mouse the day before. Of course, Dale has proven she does things *her* way so -who knows!! "(Thank you Cowliflower)!

August 10th screenshot by Sher67

Happy Birthday Pearl ***Three Weeks Old Today******!!

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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