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Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas Day, with Roy and Dale

Love in slow motion by debbie mango
http://youtu.be/-21cBG1kAk4

More Love at the Hideout on Christmas by DebbieMango
http://youtu.be/cC5fi814guc

Christmas Eve, Five minutes with Roy by TweetKathleen
http://youtu.be/vejsmVTUQ8w

Owlceanside Mel and Sydney, Deets heard from afar.... video by BB4dandylion
http://youtu.be/N53PPNPpiGU

12/23 The many sides of Roy, by Tweet Kathleen
http://youtu.be/dWv922GiBt0

Overnight Report!

5:59 pm - 6:13 pm Dale in doorway (Roy inside)
6:14 pm - 6:20 pm Roy on Porch Perch and Dale on HP
6:20 pm Roy flies off.
7:43 pm Dale flies from HP to porch. Roy returns to porch perch.
7:46 pm Dale goes inside
8:15 pm Roy joins Dale
8:26 pm - 9:04 pm Kissy face preening Awwww!!

03:50 Roy arrives at the Hideout, stays on porch
04:10 Roy flies off from Hideout
05:17 Roy arrives at the Hideout, stays on porch
05:23 Roy flies off from Hideout

http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/sets/72157628573269155/?forumid=602621

Thank you DodgerGirl! and TweetKathleen!

Video recordings can be viewed by going to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TweetKathleen?feature=watch
OCG took fantastic pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/owlcamguy/6573125263/in/
Angowleyez
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjuliz/6572611745/in/photostream/

Couleedam
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/6573103679/in/photostream
TweetKathleen:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweetkathleen/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweetkathleen/6573248835/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Thank you Tweet!
Brief Morning Visit by Tresbien!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6574654227/in/photostream?forumid=602621

Memory Lane... May 2011 A Young Roy and Dale, learning the ropes!
Video by TweetKathleen

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