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Friday, September 9, 2011

9/9 - Four treats last night (see previous post please) Major Power Outage in SD fries the Hideout PC, pics and more

Several computers and interfaces run our Ustream Hideout and Parlor. The San Diego Power Outage last night caused a Power Surge which fried one of the computers, the Inside Camera (Parlor) computer last night.

OwlCamGuy stayed up most of the night, and fortunately found us a "spare" laptop at 1:30 am PDT to continue our broadcast. This is why you may notice a choppy sound and stream.

1:00 PM UPDATE: OwlCamGuy is spending his one day off buying parts and rebuilding a new computer for our Parlor. Please consider making a Donation!: ) Thank you!
Here are the pictures OCG took last night while the power was off by flashlight in his yard so we would not miss out:

Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67336418@N03/sets/72157627632847524/

Last Nights 2:am delivery by Owlfinn (after OCG got the Outside Cam Back up after Power Outage)
Belle gulps a mousie!

Shout out to all the fantastic folks at Friday Molly Movie Night http://www.ustream.tv/channel/friday-night-at-the-re-runs ! It's a warm friendly place where folks get together every Friday night and enjoy movies and reminisce together.. thanks for the warm welcome there ! This site has been running continually since Molly and McGee in 2010 with great chatters.. check it out some time : )! Contests for best logos on pictures, virtual prizes and more! Thanks Kestra, GMarch and all the chatters there !

Screenshot by LoneStarStateTx

Dale to Pearl, September 9th: 3:34 am treat Screenshot by Coach30

Quotable Parlor Quotes! "We are all so interconnected..if someone sneezes across the ocean we need to have tissues ready".. SLCbirder.

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As of 5, Emmie still didnt have any porchabout screenies, so she decided to try this !

Sept 6th EmmieJan improvises on some Porchabout shots !

Following up on a previous post from Endless Mountains Nature center in PA:

The area around the Endless Mountains Nature Center in Pennsylvania is experiencing record-setting floods. The center takes in wounded animals -- including owls -- and gives them homes where they can live safely.

Because of the flooding, the operator of the center, Rebecca Lesko, has evacuated three wounded birds who cannot fly — an owl, a hawk and a falcon — to her home, which is on higher ground. She has the birds in her house until the flood waters go down.- From chatter Mjr- thank you for the update!

website: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/EMNC1/

Please have a hug ready for our Tresbien who is spending the day cleaning her flooded basement (((Tresbien))))

Note from Angowleyez: My area was flooded again, worse than 2006. I am in Chenango County. No driving yet, state of emergency. I'm fine here, no water, but this is my "neighborhood". Please keep the Northeast flood folks in your prayers and thoughts. We will be busy digging out and drying out, again, for a while.

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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