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Thursday, October 6, 2011

10/6 to 10/7- Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report Treats 4 on Cam: Belle 3 including a gopher, Pearl 1. Belle also chowed down on her leftover gopher.

Belle is 83, Pearl is 79 days today !

Belle and Pearl spent a good amount of the time on the Porch side by side.. a few flybys, not seen on camera, but we could see them tracking the parents.

Coulee’s Photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/?saved=1
tres' Photostream of Belle's leftover treat
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6218728769/in/photostream
Hundon's pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/
19:36 Belle eats gopher in pantry from last night
Flyabouts/Activity:

October 7th: A very content Belle by Sher67

18:50 Belle returns to the Hideout
18:51 Pearl returns to the Hideout
18:59 Belle off on flyabout
19:05 Belle returns from flyabout
19:15 Pearl off on flyabout
19:46 Pearl returns from flyabout
20:18 Pearl off on flyabout
20:36 Pearl returns from flyabout
21:55 Pearl off on flyabout
21:58 Pearl returns from flyabout
Thank you DodgerGIrl!
10 pm Pearl flies off
10:26 Treat to Pearl
11:48 Pearl leaves
11:52 pearl back
12:37 pearl leaves

Overnight from 1 to 3 am from Hundon
Treat to Belle 10:26
Treat to Pearl 1.33 eaten off cam (express delivery on top of box, no idea who it was)
Treat to Belle 2.01 - another fast delivery from a barn owl ;)
Treat to Belle 2.20 - no idea whoo, and Belle flew off with it
Pearl returned 1.07
Belle away 1.10, back 1.33
Pearl returns 2.04 - went into box for a few minutes
Belle away at 2.20 (with treat)
Pearl away 2.24 and back 2.39
Belle also returned 2.39
Pearl off 2.43

October 7th: Belle takes off with a treat by Hundon

Every night I watch with trepidation
but the owlets return without hesitation,
we are lucky to see them each night,
someday they will take flight :)- Couleedam

(8) "In the stil lof the night, as the treats fill the Hideout. Why oh why do the owlets go off on a flyabout?"- Lisalassie

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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