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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

10/4 to 10/5- Four (4) treats on camera, 2 Belle, 2 pEarl, 2 CollisionAbouts as both parent and owlets fallabout at delivery

Belle is 81 today, Pearl is 77.. Happy Birthday pEarl, Eleven weeks today!

Overnight activity
Pearl arrives 6:54
Belle Arrives 6:55..

19:03 Rodent to Belle from unknown parent (eaten offscreen)
21:06 Gopher to Pearl eaten in box
21:33 treat to Belle
4:52 treat to Pearl (eaten off screen)

Flyabouts/Activity:
18:54 Pearl returns to the Hideout
18:55 Belle returns to the Hideout
18:58 Pearl off on flyabout
19:14 Belle returns from dining out
19:40 Pearl returns to the Hideout
20:37 Belle off on flyabout

Thank you DodgerGirl!
From Hundon:
1:00 to 3:45 am
No deliveries seen, although great fuss from both of them at one point, so assumed parent was off cam, but not seen.
Belle was on the porch when I arrived;
Pearl had left at 00.50, returned at 1.58.
Belle went at 2.36, pearl at 3.00; both back 3.01.
Peark left at 3.35, Belle followed, but returned a minute later.
When I left Belle was still squawking!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/

Sunrise Departures:
Pearl departed after her 4:52 am treat
Belle departed for the day at 6:05 am

Thanks for the photo/video contributions:
Coulee’s Photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/?saved=1
Adorable photo by OCG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/owlcamguy/6213117430/in/photostream

Treat Delivery October 4th screenshot by Coach30

October 4th by OCG

Belle and Pearl arrived within a minute of each other last night. Pearl flew off.

6:00 am (ish). Belle flies to the Lookout and casts a shadow..

Flies to the HP, and departs for the day

(Video lightened)

Memory Lane August 14th Belle Faceplants

Africam-Potted Plant Owl-

http://owltlaws.blogspot.com/p/ppo.html

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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