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Saturday, September 10, 2011
9/10 to 9/11 : Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats FIVE ( 5): Belle :(3) 1 gopher, 2 treats; Pearl (2) 1 vole; 1 tough rat shared by both for 3 hours and finally consumed by Belle. No branching, porching though! Massive Rat shared by both owlets for over three hours !**Saga of a Rat pics and more~
On a day of remembrance of great sadness and loss, I am also choosing to reflect on the simplest of pleasures, like our owlets and the joy they bring at times like this..
Here is the overnight treat report:
19:36 Parent with food (gopher to Belle)
02:39 Roy with food (rat of epic proportions to Pearl)
02:52 Dale with food (rodent to Belle)
03:05 Roy with food (rodent to Belle)
03:12 Belle steals rat from Pearl
03:24 Parent with food (vole to Pearl)
03:58 Belle gives up on rat effort, Pearl is in doorway have a major meltdown/poutabout about the thievery that is going on in the box
04:08 Pearl gets another shot at the rat, until she stuffs herself and gives up the effort
05:20 Belle finishes off the rat (and the crowd goes wild) **Thank you Dodgers!****
ROUS Delivery by TweetKathleen
TweetKathleens Video of Ratticus Giganticus last night, Part Two!
Happy Birthday LacyRoze! <3!******
Including The Saga of The Rat from last night, and the rest of her Outstanding Photos, slideshow by Hundon
Belle finds a huge hork on the porch and brings it inside 9/11 late thirty
First treat of the night, Roy to Belle 736 pm Screenshot by Cowliflower
Porch Delivery by OwlCamGuy (Notice that Belle does not see Roy !)
Scurry of activity after First Treat Delivery 9/10
Guardian of the Owlets- Cloud formation in Japan, Sept 27th, 2010 Photograph by Coach30
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
March 12th Dale and Ellie 2012
In Memory of McGee 2010.. 2012
March 5th 2012
Three Little Heroes Beak Festing by TwoOwlWingz 2/27/12
Happy Birthday LacyRoze! <3!******
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