Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 10/13 to 10/14 1:39 Belle gets one treat on cam-flew away with it. Belle and pEarl visited last night- Two unknown owls visited while Belle was on the porch last night, probably Roy and Dale !

Friday, October 14, 2011

10/13 to 10/14 1:39 Belle gets one treat on cam-flew away with it. Belle and pEarl visited last night- Two unknown owls visited while Belle was on the porch last night, probably Roy and Dale !

Screenshot by LoneStar and Coulee

Belle sees a Flyby by Coach30

Beautiful Belle Wingz by Dkowen

Belle gets a huge gopher, screenshot by Hundon

Belle is 90 days old today, pEarl is 86 days old!
From 7 pm PDT to 1:00 am PDT we saw quite a bit of Belle and pEarl.. some flybys indicated Belle was watching a parent. At one point, she squawked and flapped her wings rapidly on the HP (The Hissy Fit noted below!) !

Flyabouts/Activity:
18:33 Pearl arrived at and immediately left the hitching post
18:42 Belle arrived back at the Hideout
19:10 Belle off on flyabout
21:20 Pearl returns from flyabout, onto roof
21:57 Pearl off on flyabout
22:10 Belle returns from flyabout
22:29 Belle off on flyabout after an owl did a flyby near the HP
22:49 Pearl returns from flyabout
23:41 Pearl off on flyabout
23:49 Belle returns from flyabout (case of mistaken identity initially on HP)
00:03 Belle has a hissyfit on HP and flies to porch, unknown if parent or Pearl in area

Thank you DodgerGirl!

1:00 to 1:45 Hundon observed Belle at The Hideout, and then the subsequent treat

Thanks for photo/video contributions:

Coach30's photos of last night's activities:
http://picasaweb.google.com/115110385377861226679/BonnieAndClyde2011#

Couleedam's photo of Pearl's visit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/

October 14th Sunrise at The Hideout by Milleniumxgirl

JazzyAnne's Winter Garb !

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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