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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

10/11 to 10/12-Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats: 1 to pEarl, a vole. Belle appears to have fully fledged -- go Belle!

Flyabouts/Activity:

18:48 Pearl returns to the Hideout

19:04 Pearl goes off on flyabout

21:38 Pearl returns from flyabout

Belle has not returned to the Hideout)

Thank you DodgerGirl!

12:18 am Treat To Pearl (Vole)
Thank you KSBORN
1:00 am Pearl still at the Hideout
Thank you Hundon
As of 3:05 am PDT, Belle has never shown up at the box, and Pearl has never left, except for short flyabouts. However, unlike the past 2 nights, a treat was delivered to Pearl at 12:16. It was a vole and was eaten in the box. Pearl flew out to intercept the delivery off cam, so the delivery parent was not seen.- Thank you BugGirl!

Thanks for photo/video contributions:

photostream

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Poems from Last Night:
The chatters breathe deeply, look 'round with a sigh,
But know that the owlets should take to the sky.
And though they are sad that the owls did depart,
A part of each owlet remains in each heart.-
FloridaSkye

There once was an owl named Belle,
who, vocally, raised lots of he__,
and then there was pEarl, who we're not sure is a girl,
but we all think that they are just swell!"-
hjd85
The chatters breathe deeply, look 'round with a sigh,
But know that the owlets should take to the sky.
And though they are sad that the owls did depart,
A part of each owlet remains in each heart.FloridaSkye:

The owls, they done flew the coop,
but sure left behind lots of poop,
you'd think they'd come back,
to clean up the ----
but they just could not give us a hoot!"
hjd85

It was not a dark and stormy night
When our new-grown owls took final flight
Into a new world filled with wonder and light.
Where Nature would watch them with delight.
FloridaSkye

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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