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Thursday, December 29, 2011

12/28 to 12/29

Dale knows she is being watched...

She is also much more comfy with the Cam clicks now !

Dec 29th 1:43 Roy Flying to the Lookout, Screenshot by Vxn

Overnight Report:
17:30 Dale arrives at the Hideout, goes inside with Roy
19:21 Bonding inside the Hideout
20:07 Roy hops to HP after gnawing on Twiggy, the lowly askew porch branch
20:08 Dale exits Hideout and both she and Roy fly off
20:50 Dale and Roy land on HP
20:54 After brief pit stop, Dale and Roy fly off
21:36 Roy lands on porch, gets spooked by Twiggy the branch, hops to HP
21:48 Roy flies off
22:15 Roy lands on HP
22:16 Roy flies off (great seeing ya' buddy)
00:05 Dale and Roy arrive at the Hideout and go inside
00:11 Dale exits the Hideout and flies off
01:43 Roy flies off, after being on the porch for several minutes
02:30 Roy lands on the HP
03:05 Roy flies off
Roy left at 4:31am PST and returned to the hitching post at 5:33am PST. (Thank you Tresbien)http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/sets/72157628614390359/
Thank you DodgerGirl!

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