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Sunday, September 18, 2011

9/17 to 9/18

Belle is 64 days today, Pearl is 60 days.. Happy Birthday Pearl!

Belle in Treeabout by EmmieJan

September 18th: Belle in Tree by OCG

‎01:27 pEarl does pantry check

01:27 Belle back from flyabout
02:17 low flyby by parent near porch
02:20 Dale to pEarl, massive rat
02:28 Dale on lookout
02:44 Dale flew away
02:58 Belle in box with Pearl, stalking the rat
03:24 Belle steals rat, 1/4 left, from pEarl
03:59 pEarl flies off
04:11 pEarl returns

from DodgerGirl1

Overnight from CouleeDam

Belle spent the day in the tree and left the tree @ 7:13 PM Belle returned to the owlbox at 7:30 PM

Belle went into the box and ate the last 1/2 rat

Belle left @ 8:14 and returned at 10:07

Belle didn't leave again until 1 a.m.

Pearl returned from the day out @ 7:36 PM

Roy brought Pearl a treat (mouse) @ 9:39 PM which Pearl at "up on the roof"

Addendum by Lonestar:)!
4:45 am - parent flyby, BEHIND the owlbox, from front to back, never saw that.before
4:47 am - Belle flies, following parent?
5:11 - 5:29am Pearl has another short flyabout, including return to roof of owlbox for couple minutes, then at 5:29 "missed approach" trying to land on HP (right) instead of porch, falls, comes back to HP (left) and back to porch.

Pearl goes to roof, and on roof as first light approaches. I was watching her closely to see where (direction) she would go, if she leaves. But not easy to see her on top of box, especially if back to cam. Then right around 5:55-6:00, suddenly she was just "gone". Didn't see her fly (nobody did), so thinking maybe she just hopped over into the tree? Belle not seen after flying after parent at 4:47a. And "that was it" as sunrise came at 6:33am.

Happy Trails to You: A Beautiful Video by EmmieJan!
http://www.youtube.com/user/EmmieJanJan#p/u/0/KHdneEe7mXk

Belle Peeps at the Camera
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6156834120/in/photostream
Im King of the World Says Pearl!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6155708362/in/photostream
What the Owltlaws mean to me.. by EmmieJan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/5961366287/sizes/l/in/set-72157627217485892/

Side by Side September 17 by Sher67

Memories

Screenshot by Cowliflower

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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