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Monday, August 1, 2011

Overnight July 31 to August 1st- Happy One Week Birthday Wyatt! 9 deliveries

Tresbien's Just the Factz Overnight Report deliveries 9: 4 gophers, 3 mice; Dale brought 2 mice; 7 flyabouts (one more than an hour long)

Treat Report: 8:34 Mouse, 9:17 Gopher, 11:18 Gopher, 1:19 Gopher, 2:20 Gopher
Flyabouts: 8:50 to 9:30, 10:50 to 11:44, 12:28 to 2:04 (Long Flyabout) 4:22 am Dale with a mouse Thanks NCwatcher!
Per BugGirl, two treats brought in by Roy while Dale on Flyabout. Dale took several through
tips in and off the porch (Out-n-In-about (rough translation, tm Hummerdad)

Screenshot by Couleedam and Lonestar

statOR: I can see it now in the Journowl of Ornithology written by owlbox chatters

Ok, we have observed Dale removing stomach of gophers and discarding them
Have not seen her doing that with rats or mice. Gophers eat bulbs and corms (some toxic)
It would stand to reason she would discard stomachs with fresh toxic (possibly to owls not gophers) material!
2:48 litlvxn: I thought maybe stomachs contained too many carbs and she was on Atkins
2:49 statOR: As I said,the lightbulb went off-AHA!

**Thank you StatOr! Mystery solved as to why Dale keeps flinging the gopher stomachs!

Roy August 1st Photograph by Owlcamguy

5:30 am The Pioneer Gang on a Preenabout- Please watch the next video for a TV interview with Carlos and Donna from 2010 ~

Zee says Hi to Mom after Dale returns from a 4:30 flyabout

Dale brings in a mouse at 4:22 am - Screenshot by TweetKathleen

Belle Stands up July 31st Screenshot by Couleedam and Lonestar

Roy brings in the gopher, and waits and once again (beaks) off the treat to Belle.. while the little ones chirped. Belle tugged at the treat beaked it, at on point actually touching Zees beak as if to feed her ! Dale came back and unzipped.
Roy is proving to be the Dad who breaks the mold as we all knew he would !
*********Happy Birthday Wyatt Earp One Week 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