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Friday, October 21, 2011

10/20 to 10/21 The Kidz visit !

8:00ish Belle and Pearl return for a visit
Pics by LitlVxn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63776925@N02/6263283574/in/set-72157627936340414/
Tresbien's pics of the Kidz visit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/

No treats delivered onscreen.

Flyabouts/Activity:

(unk time) Flyby

18:19 Flyby

18:28 Flyby

18:36 Flyby

19:44 Pearl in tree

19:56 Pearl enters the Hideout

19:57 Pearl exits the Hideout and Belle is seen on the Hitching Post

20:04 Both Belle and Pearl fly off towards the palm trees and hunting fields to the right

20:24 Owl on Hitching Post, then flies to perch adjacent to tree (Possibly Bonnie or Clyde, or Roy, or Dale, or Molly, or Wesley, or Dinky....but definitely not Teeny"

23:01 Unknown owl on lookout

GeekLady screen caps, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdrake001/sets/72157627943795288/

Here are some beautiful pics from natowllover:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06/?saved=1

2:16 am-2 owls in the tree at ! One was a female and then this male. I thought they were both Belle and Pearl. After going inside the box, and then the porch, he looked around as if all was new to him then looked up at the roof and went up, stood for a few and then flew off. All together, he stayed about 45 minutes. Who is this??? LOL...

By the way, there were some sweet chirpings going on and the female disappeared around 2:30.
Thank you LvOwls!

We had one last owl visit in the tree at 3:35 and he/she stayed for about 10 minutes, his/her back was turned towards us .Spurz also kept us entertained with his crawlabout all over the lens, I think he's getting ready for Halloween... Is it me or has he grown? I attached a pic, it's the big blob on the box, lol. (Coach30's pics to be attached soon)
Thank you Coach!

Thanks to everyone for the great photo contributions!!! and thanks to Belle and Pearl for showing up for the photo op!!!

Tresbien’s pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/

KitzelCat’s photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53907939@N08/

couleedam’s photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/?saved=1

debbiemango’s photo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49300434@N08/6265621394/

Thank you DodgerGirl!

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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