Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 9/16 to 9/17 Just the Factz Overnight Report: Treats (1) by Dale to Pearl. Belle found 1 Rat in the box. Both flew off at 7:50 pm PDT with Pearl returning at 8:35 and Belle at 2:24 am!**Many flights off camera, many sightings on. a successful start to fledge!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

9/16 to 9/17 Just the Factz Overnight Report: Treats (1) by Dale to Pearl. Belle found 1 Rat in the box. Both flew off at 7:50 pm PDT with Pearl returning at 8:35 and Belle at 2:24 am!**Many flights off camera, many sightings on. a successful start to fledge!

Overnight News from Lonestar:
Belle and Pearl left at 7:50 pm. Pearl came back at 8:35, sat on porch. Dale brought treat 1:20 am. Both tumbled off porch. Belle gone until 2:24 am. Dale came 2:25, on Hitching Post until 2:50 am, owlets at Hideout. Per Lone: "I believe that Belle ate heartily while she was away for all of those hours (probably with Parents). When she returned, she went to her corner and went sound asleep-- she would not have done that if not full!
Belle munching on a pantry treat at 5:15 am.. both owlets off as of 5:53 am...

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|| Timeline Highlights:||

7:50p - 2:24am, 6hr 34 min - Belle flies/returns
7:50p - 8:36pm, 45 min - Pearl flies/returns
1:30am - Treat: Dale flies in with treat in talons, Pearl on porch
2:06-2:12a - Belle or Dale on Lookout (cam):
2:25-2:50a - Dale comes for visit, sitting on HP
2:30-4:11a - Belle sleeps in owlbox; Pearl on porch
5:08-5:17a - Pearl flies, towards and past Lookout, returns in 9 min
5:11a - Belle comes up with treat of mystery origin in owlbox, shreds part of it
Activities near sunrise-- see other mod's reports or comments

LoneStar
2:30pm CDT / 12:30pm PDT

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Belle Starr is 63 , pEarl Hart is 59 days young!

Both have branched and flown.. Fledge is successfully underway !

Oops you caught me! Belle feasting on a treat 5:00 am gets caught by Pearl

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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