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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

8/2 to 8/3-9:02 Just the Factz Overnight Report Deliveries: NINE (9) assorted pocket gophers, rats and ROUS (Rodents of Unusual Size).

July 28th: Screenshot by Cowliflower

August 2, noon... Photograph by OwlCamGuy

August 2, noonish Family photo by Couleedam

Little Zee, you're quite a hoot
Around the box we see you scoot
You soon will hold your head up high..
To see the Owl Box and the sky...
-FloridaSkye

Happy Birthday Pearl Hart, Two Weeks Old Today!!

From FloridaSkye: "While growing up I heard my mother sing "The Ballad of Jesse James" many a time and, as I mentioned, she was already 26 years old when Wyatt Earp died!! Many people think the Wild West was eons ago, but it really wasn't. Here is her story of our Wyatt Earp:

More History of The Hideout-

Wyatt Earp was an Owltlaw before turning to the law.

He needed to use The Hideout several times from what we saw.

A gambler and a miner, Wyatt helped clean up the West,

But one big battle coming up would put him to the test.

The gunfight at the OK Corral was what really brought him fame,

For he killed all the Owltlaws there so we forever know his name.

His story now in history is written on the page;

We think that Wyatt and his sort are from another age.

But this lawman, tall and handsome, always looking mighty fine,

Did not pass on to history ‘til 1929.-FloridaSkye

Do you know your Rodentia?

Baby Kangaroo Rat

Vole

Gopher

Thank you LvOwls and Coulee for Rodentia pics !

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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