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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Special Video Highlights from the past few days including Pearl on the porch**Special Note-Chula Vista having a heat wave today.. OCG has the mister on to cool off the Hideout/OwlBox
MORE UPDATES and CATCHUP from blog publisher coming in the new few days.. Your submissions are wonderful and will be added ! Thank you for all the hard working Moderators and OCG and chat as we come close to Fledge time.... "I see Mr. Mister is on already. Never see the Mrs.." - CosmicOne Special Note: You will see Belle and Pearl "Gular Flutter" today.. Gular Fluttering: A cooling behaviour in which birds rapidly flap membranes in the throat to increase evaporation and cool down" (thanks vette59 for sharing this in chat)
The owlets are regulating their body temperature. While warm until it cools off in a few hours, they are well fed and hydrated. The Hideout always has a breeze and the trees cool down the box. No need for concern as the Mister is pumping and cooling them off. Just another reason OCG rocks. Thank you OCG<3 for water bills and electrical costs and everything you do.
Pearl "Mantles" her treat from Belle 9/7
Pearl is the first to go on the Porch Day: 9/7 Time: 1:43 am
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
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