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Sunday, September 18, 2011

9/18 to 9/19- Two treats on camera (to Pearl) Off camera treats undetermined! Fledge successfully underway

September 18th 6:03 am Belle flies away for the day by Couleedam

Belle is 65 days today, Pearl is 61 days.Another fun night in chat as OCG joined our almost 400 viewing audience and Parlor Moderators and chat as we watch Belle and Pearl hop, skip, fly and woo our hearts as they glide into their next phase of life and all the adventures to come....Much to our delight, they spent the first part of the evening sitting together on their favorite part of the porch. Much time is spent on the Roof of the Hideout as well. Come join the fun early tonight (7 pm PDT)
Both owlets have successfully flown to nearby neighbor's yard and back.
Overnight treat/Flyabout report:
7:18 Pearl Returns
7:31 Belle Returns

Treats:
19:25   Gopher to Pearl from Roy
19:39   Gopher to Pearl from Roy
Flyabouts/Activity:
19:18   Pearl returns to hideout
19:31   Belle returns to hideout
21:21   Belle off on flyabout
21:28   Belle returns to hideout
22:50   Pearl off on flyabout
22:52   Belle off on flyabout
22:56   Belle returns to hideout
22:58   Pearl returns to hideout
23:47   Belle off on flyabout
23:58   Belle returns to hideout
(more activity and then....
5:25 am Pearl returns to the Porch and calls
6:03 Belle flies off for the day
? Pearl flies off
Both owlets are probably roosting in the neighbor's tree again !

Belle and Pearl form President Lincoln's Shadowy Head by TwoOwlWingz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56319610@N04/6162573520/sizes/m/in/photostream/
First Treat to Pearl last night from OwlbertFinn:!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE9dl6h2Tis&feature=email

President Lincoln Shadow Head by TwoOwlWingz September 18th

Happy Trails! A beautiful video tribute from EmmieJan
http://www.youtube.com/user/EmmieJanJan#p/a/u/0/KHdneEe7mXk

Pioneer Gang Memories and Moments Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhJ4Oia4vh8

Days of Owl Lives: Episode 6 by DodgersGirl1
Belle and pEarl are growing up so fast. Dale and Roy are sitting on OCG’s roof talking about when they were just eggs. “How did they even fit in there?” Just then, pEarl bounds from the porch onto the hitching post, missing the landing by a mile. The viewers gasp, Belle cries aloud, and Dale and Roy go into “parental panic”. No sounds can be heard from the yard below. Is pEarl okay? Did she survive the fall?

Dale and Roy send out an S.O.S. to OCG to help with the search. Dale and Roy call out repeatedly, but no answer is heard. With their hearts beating out of their speckled chests, they get a sinking feeling that pEarl may be gone. OCG breaks out a flashlight, calls his crew for a “search and rescue” mission and the full-scale hunt for pEarl begins. Sampson is silent, so he is off the hook. Belle continues to pace on the porch, squawking hysterically. “I miss my sister and/or yet-to-be-determined-brother”.

Just as sounds of the sirens got closer and Dale and Roy were weeping in flight, pEarl flies up to the porch with a gopher in her mouth and says, “Hey, what’s up guys?? Just went and got some dinner while I was down there. Sorry I didn’t answer you, but my beak was full.” Although Dale, Roy, Belle, OCG and his crew were not initially amused, they all bust into laughter because after all, that was such a “pEarl move”.

Memory Lane
March 11th, 2011
Clyde delivers a treat to Billy The Kid

Video Channels:
OCG
http://www.youtube.com/user/OwlCamGuy
Owlbertfinn
http://www.youtube.com/user/owlbertfinn#p/u/0/MCb_JS4Qqso
TweetKathleen
http://www.youtube.com/user/TweetKathleen
Angowleyez
http://www.youtube.com/user/angowleyez

Photostreams
Owlcamguy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/owlcamguy/

Couleedam and LoneStar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/

Owlcamguy and Angowleyez
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67336418@N03/

Sher67
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53907939@N08/

Tresbien
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/

EmmieJan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/

TweetKathleen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweetkathleen/with/6127881603/

TwoClubsMolly (TwoOwlWingz)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56319610@N04/

Hundon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/
DGirl just loves to Hang Out!

DodgersGirl September 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63776925@N02/

Memory Lane

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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