Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 9/27 to 9/28- Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats 3 on cam: Belle 1 gopher; Pearl 1 vole, 1 rodent. The pioneers watched their parents from the porch much of the night. Calls and flyovers !

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

9/27 to 9/28- Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats 3 on cam: Belle 1 gopher; Pearl 1 vole, 1 rodent. The pioneers watched their parents from the porch much of the night. Calls and flyovers !

Treats:
19:45 Treat to Pearl from unknown parent (delivered on porch, eaten below, to the left, on perch)
00:45 Possible vole to Pearl from unknown parent (Pearl flew just off cam to retrieve mid-air, eaten on porch)

Flyabouts/Activity:
19:00 Pearl returns to the Hideout
19:01 Belle returns to the Hideout
Both owlets went on multiple fairly long flyabouts on their own, without us hearing the parents call for them. Pearl had a hour long flyabout. Possible additional prey eaten offscreen. Roy and Dale were around, off cam, with increased luring attempts. We could see the owlets tracking the parents from the porch and owlets were vocalizing loudly, indicating the presence of the parents. A couple of alerts put out by parents. Owlets froze in their position and then answered the parent back.
Thank you DodgerGirl!
Pearl also spent a bit of time nipping away at Belle's tail feather as two minor tiffs occurred over the porch: a turfabout

1.30 - 3:00 a.m.

Delivery ? gopher to Belle at 2 a m, she took it into the trees behind the box to eat and then went on flyabout; Pearl also went on flyabout during that time but they both spent the rest of the time at the end of the porch calling and obviously sometimes spotting flyovers by parents not visible to viewers.

Thank you Hundon!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/ Scroll down for Pioneer pics and enjoy ALL of Hundon's beautiful pics, please!

The last delivery seen was the gopher to Belle. She left first this morning followed by pEarl shortly before dawn. Three owls were seen flying for a second

Funny shot by hundon http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6191407517/in/photostream

Thanks for the photo/video contributions:

Couleedam's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/

EmmieJan's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/sets/72157627217485892/detail/

Pearl and Belle fly in September 27th:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTHz2orffM&feature=uploademail

First treat to Pearl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpucoyw1PKA&feature=uploademail

Belle gets a treat September 28th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waK3tk8hrho&feature=uploademail

Thank you Owlfinn!

September 27th: Is that an Aardvark??

Belle sports a Bear skin by Hundon

September 27th: First Delivery by Couleedam

Belle arrives 7:04 September 26th: Screenshot taken from Owlfinn's video below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDNp4jJgxr8&feature=uploademail
Look at how graceful our babies fly in...

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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