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Saturday, December 24, 2011

The "Golden Helmet" Roy.. in the box for Christmas Eve ! : )

Rudolph Roy by Natowllover

Oh Snap, we are being watched.. by Vxn

How cute am I?!

12:45 pm Christmas Eve.. a hork for angowleyez request.. thank you DK !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkowen55/6565780675/

Roy is here, in vivid color, on this Christmas Eve in 2011.. Dale was by earlier..

OCG practiced a bit with settings this morning.. If you thought you were seeing Roy hanging from the ceiling for a moment, it was just an OCG OWLptical OWLusion.. (too much?) lol

How lucky are we? I did awaken at one point, looking down from bed to the pc, to hear Roy sing a bit.. not too much of a dance yet.. Perhaps tomorrow?

Dale looked inquisitively at the camera several times as Mystery Cam Operator moved things around abit.. as Vixn said.. "Oh Snap, we are being watched".. Dale is getting much more comfortable with the noises and sounds and overall ambience of our wonderful hideout!

After I saw Kathygoog say that Roy had on a Golden Helmet (tm), I had an idea for our theme for the 2012 clutch (fingers crossed..) Greek Mythology... Of course, with Zeus (Z) being my favorite.. what do you guys think? (Y)? (N).. throw some of your favorite names out.. : )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53907939@N08/ Sher67 photos

Coach30's Christmas Owl Box http://www.flickr.com/photos/54336709@N06/6563236117/in/photostream/lightbox/

Emmie's Owl Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPAQsuCqblY

Vixn's Padre is celebrating Christmas. http://picasaweb.google.com/115110385377861226679/TheHideoutContinued

Hundon's precious Dotti http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6564015213/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/6562323869/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdrake001/?saved=1 GeekLady’s pics

Dkowen's Photos!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkowen55/

Natowllover's Photos!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06/6564257405/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06/6564257389/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06/6564257395/in/photostream

Thank you Sher for posting many links, helping me compilate after my crash. Thank you Santa Owl for my new laptop : )

Dec 23 2011 3:22AM Dale Arrives At The Hideout But Goes To Tree!
Dale goes to the "peeper" tree! You can see her look over to the Hideout every so often. Is Dale our "peeper" owl?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wmIbhtifLk&feature=uploademail
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12/22 to 12/23 Overnight Activity report:

17:35: Dale arrives at Hideout

17:37: Dale leaves Hideout

19:09: Dale arrives at Hideout

19:13: Dale leaves Hideout

23:44 Roy arrives at Hideout

03:23 Dale lands in tree

04:12 Dale "possibly" see in lower perches thru new angle of inside box, looking out

05:16 Roy goes on flyabout

http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/sets/72157628532861103/with/6558949861/

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