Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 9/22 to 9/23 Two treats on camera, One off camera: (more will happen off camera now) Belle dined on the porch (Video below) and pEarl on the roof! Lots of time on the HP !

Thursday, September 22, 2011

9/22 to 9/23 Two treats on camera, One off camera: (more will happen off camera now) Belle dined on the porch (Video below) and pEarl on the roof! Lots of time on the HP !

Belle is 70, pEarl is 66 days today. We have a few more days of fun ahead before final fledge.

Belle with the Tail of the Year September 8:27 by OCG

First part of nights activites:
They are Perchfaceplanting. About. ~Buggirl

OCG Video of Belle dining on the porch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AjtZvro_ps
20:21   Rodent to Pearl from Roy (delivered on porch, eaten on roof)
20:24   Rat with a record-breaking tail to Belle from Rale (eaten on porch)
Flyabouts/Activity:

19:05   Belle returns to the roof
19:06   Pearl returns to the roof

Owlets remained on HP and adjacent perch for most of time until midnight, then flew to adjacent tree, with possible off-screen treat delivery at that time.

Thanks for the photo/video contributions: (You HAVE to see these. GREAT shots of Belle and Pearl on porch together, amazing detail thanks to OCG!!!)

OCG’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/60261286@N06/

Coulee’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/?saved=1

Tresbien's photo of Belle’s first treat http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6174237250/in/photostream/

Belle’s First Treat----Longggg Tail http://www.flickr.com/photos/owlcamguy/6173762205/in/photostream/

Thank you Dodgers, Coulee, Tweet !

September 22nd

Four Score and Seven Gophers Ago"- caption by DodgerGirl
or.. Abe Lincoln is wearing a Bump-It?

Apparently the owlets, like Dale, discard the stomach! screenshot by Coulee

Welcome home to our friend TSA>3

Owl or Super Hero?

Roy with First Treat Sept 22 screenshot by Tresbien

Pearl arrives 7:06 pm

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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