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Sunday, October 2, 2011

10/1 to 10/2- Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: 4.5 treats on camera: Belle: one gopher, 1 rodent, 1/2 SURT. Pearl, 1 vole, 1 mouse. SURT = Strange Unidentified Rodent Thingy

Pearl flies off at 6:15 am

October 2nd: 6:15 am: Pearl leaves the Hideout. Screenshot by EmmieJan

Departure: The Parlor: 6:15 am

Sher67: Gone

CK: Good morning Coach and Coulee

Dilbertdilly: Gone

Coach30: Gone

CuriosityKitten: Bye Pearl

dkowen: Poof, she went

Finnwv: Gone

Pamday: There she goes

OhioGirl62: I missed it:(

Finnwv: lol I was typing and I missed it

Sher67: I blinked

Joanne56: Bye bye sweetheart, you have fun and learn stuff today!

LoneStarStateTx: <<blinked too

Which way did she go?
Dilbertdilly: towards us

Couleedam: lol she left so fast

Ck: I only saw it out of the corner of my eye

Coach: Seemed like she flew towards us instead of behind the box?

Tresbien: Surprising since they have been going in the opposite direction

Coach: Yes, she flew just past the hitching post down below

hjd85: pEarl is singing (8) I love the night. The day is okay and the sun can be fun, but I live to see those rays slip away.

Finnwv: first here, last to leave

Curiositykitten: we now begin 12 hours of Pearlessness

Belle is 78 and Pearl is 74 days today.
Annie Oakley was 72 days and Pretty Boy Floyd 69 days at fledge.

Overnight:
Pearl arrives 6:55, Belle arrives 6:58

Treats:

19:31 Large rodent to Belle (on roof)

23:19 Large mouse to Pearl (eaten in box)

00:02 Vole to Pearl from Dale (eaten in box)

01:56 Gopher to Belle (eaten in box)
04:22 Strange unidentified half eaten rodent to Belle

Flyabouts/Activity:

18:55 Pearl returns to the Hideout

18:57 Belle returns to the Hideout

21:50 Belle on flyabout

00:11 Belle returns!!!

00:29 Flyby

01:27 Pearl on flyabout

02:32 Pearl returns!!!

Thank you DodgerGirl!

Thanks for the photo/video contributions:

couleedam's photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/

OCG's photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/owlcamguy/

hundon's photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/

Emmie-Jan's photo of Belle with her first treat

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/6202449344/in/set-72157627217485892

October 2nd 4:22 am Whatever it "was", its Gone! by Hundon

Dale with treat to Pearl 12:2 October 2nd by Couleedam

Weekly Update by Emmiejan

videos by Adelitas_way

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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