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Thursday, October 27, 2011
10/26 to 10/27- We have two owls !
Overnight treats: 0
Visits:
18:46 Flyby
19:34 Female owl lands on lookout
19:35 Male lands in tree
19:39 Female leaves lookout and flies to perch near Hideout
20:28 Female lands in tree
23:26 Both owls fly off from tree
23:58 Male owl lands on roof
00:03 Male hops down to porch and looks inside box
00:04 Male enters box and pokes around, looking very handsome
00:06 Male exits box and flies off towards the tree
00:37 Loud squawks heard near the area of the tree Thank you DodgerGirl!
2 am to 3:45 am No Owl Sightings: Thank you Hundon!
From LacyRoze: 4:19 am Owl on the Lookout who then flew to the porch. By coloring it appears to be a female but we know how that goes, lol~ Timidly peeked into the box. Preening on perch off front of porch.
4:28 Second owl shows up sits on HP. Promptly flys out of view.
4:32 first owl flies to tree behind hideout.
4:41 owl on roof. 4:42 down to porch. This owl appears lighter in color than owl from previous post. 4:44 flys off. Thank you Lacy!
screenshot by DodgerGirl, more pics in slideshow below
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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