Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 9/8 to 9/9- Four (4) treats (two for each owlet)** Two reported per the Hideout Connection (OCG in his yard with a flashlight)!:and two by Hundon***Power to Outside cam restored at 12:53 am..****thank you OCG***September 8th: Power is out in San Diego until further notice.. Wesley texted... she's working on it ! She said to enjoy the highlights below! (Wesley is our famous owlet from Clutch 1, Molly and McGee)..

Thursday, September 8, 2011

9/8 to 9/9- Four (4) treats (two for each owlet) Two reported per the Hideout Connection (OCG in his yard with a flashlight)!:and two by Hundon*Power to Outside cam restored at 12:53 am..**thank you OCG*September 8th: Power is out in San Diego until further notice.. Wesley texted... she's working on it ! She said to enjoy the highlights below! (Wesley is our famous owlet from Clutch 1, Molly and McGee)..

Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: FOUR (4) Treats- 2 for Belle (including a gopher) 2 for pEarl. Power restored at 12:53 am PDT. One computer fried, temporary backup laptop in use now.

POWER RESTORED at 12:53 am.. OCG turned on outside cam, both Pearl and Belle out on porch
Inside puter/camera was fried due to power surge. OCG is using a spare PC to run the inside cam. Sound may be choppy, but we won't complain
Thanks to OCG for all night vigilance waiting for power to come back on !

treats: 7:45, 8:42
10:13 pm Pearl is Out, OCG will have pics tomorrow
Is This what happened??!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/california-power-out-till-friday.html
This just in from Twitter:
Tweet from Belle : "gettin l8, whr my bunny at momz? Hook a baby up. Tum growlin"

Pearl : "yo, it be dark 2nite. Peeps b creepin' in my hood. Wherez momz at with by Go4?"

  reply tweet from Belle: "sis B buggin' me fierce rt now. Keepz biting my tail. Wutz up w/ that yo? Got ratz?"- litlvxn: (the Twitter Fowls)

FloridaSkye: The Outabout --
The trippedswitchfiredelectrialguyabout
Gave the chatters plenty of time to jokeabout.
They laughed until they had a cryabout.
Then Tweetkathleen said to cut it out.     #
litlvxn: (8) "That's the night that the lights when out at the owlbox. That's the night that they hung an innocent vole" : (8) "So don't trust you vole to no back street southern gopher, cause the mouse in the house has blood stains on his paws"

This just in from Curiousitykitten (CK) :What if the girls give each other makeovers while the cameras are off? Will we recognize them?....

OwlCamGuy (OCG) has updated the Owltlaw Website with two new pages and provided a downloadable PDF of a new wanted poster for Boone. The poster can be found at the bottom of the Live page. http://www.owltlaws.com/live

Free Wanted Poster of Boone, courtesy of OCG ! http://www.owltlaws.com/Wanted%20Poster%20Boone.pdf

OCG has updated the Cafe Press site to include Pioneer Boone items:
http://www.cafepress.com/theowltlaws/8010211

Thank you OCG! Who rocks more than you?!
Listen for the Howls...

Is that the little egg that once rolled?
Is that the fluffy owl at play?
I don't remember growing feathers. When did they?
When did they learn to sleep while standing. ...
when did they learn to pounce on horks?
Soon they will branch then fledge and fly...like...storks.
Sunrise, sunset, sunrise sunset, swiftly grow the owls.
All day we watch them in the Parlor
All night we listen for their howls...
~LisaLassie

In Memory of Little Lost Owlets

Sweet little owlets, we lost you when your lives had just begun.

We never will know the magnificent owls we hoped you would become.

But even though you left us, when you were so tiny and new,

We won't forget you, precious little ones. You're part of our family too.

Fly little owlets, fly wild, fly free!

Your spirits ever soaring in the heavens will be.

~BugGirl

Jesse and Boone and Wyatt and Zee dip their wings and wave, flying over us... from rainbow bridge..

September 1st.. Part III, Belle finishes a rat tail.. featuring our Boone

The Caring Owl, link provided by Hundon01

http://www.owlpages.com/articles.php?section=Owl+Stories&title=Caring+O

Belle thinks about dinner, Sept 1st by Sher67

August 31st treat delivery by TweetKathleen

The Beautiful Necessity, Angels of The Night: a Barn Owl video from Italy

Twins by Sher67 9/7

Next stop: the Porch! Screenshot by Sher67 9/7

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