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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Intermission Pause: Queen of the Night bloom and music by John Darrow (Phoons) and the GoogAbout from Kathygoog-- Please see previous posts for overnight and Pioneer pics

Please do not call Belle Bellezilla! Many chatters and viewers dislike this term. Thank you <3
This flower only blooms one night, once a year. John Darrow (Phoons) caught the sequence of blooming and wrote the music. This flower helps you take a spiritual leap to help you reach your full potential.

CosmicOne's Backyard Birds Slideshow

The GoogAbout!- Traveling across the states with KathyGoog and Hubby!
Day 5~Drove thru Custer National Park, SD, early am & caught lots of animals up & about; Deer = 7 females, 1 male & 1 fawn; an entire town of prairie dogs (100?) running across road & diving into their ground holes (then stayed for 1/2 hr to watch them come out & play/roughhouse/talk with each other); a herd of dozens of burrows; 2 pronghorns & hundreds of Buffalo, males, females & babes. Of course they felt the right to be in the road also, so waited for ranger to come along & move them with truck. On to Deadwood for 'Wild Bill Hickock' history lesson. Then into WY, first stop Devils' Tower. 4 people were climbing it, but I was duly impressed from the ground. On to Buffalo, WY in the Bighorn Mtns for the night.

Day 6~As we head west this am, the first rise we come over, our view is full of the snow topped Rocky Mtns! We meander thru canyons where the cliffs are red clay, limestone or rock, not what I thought I'd see in Wyoming! In some stretches, for miles, one side of the road would look like a desert & the other side would be green with planted crops. Other miles after miles were sand dunes, where the only green would be where there was some small amount of water, just like an oasis in a movie desert. Went thru Emblem, WY, population 10 with 3 houses empty/for sale.Arrive in Cody, WY, where 1st stop is Buffalo Bill Historical Center and then on to Old Trail Town. (I won't bore anyone with descriptions, but I just picked up on a pattern here with hubby's pics for sightseeing.)
Spending tonite in Cody, on to Yellowstone tomorrow.

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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