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Friday, December 30, 2011

Third Owl breaks up the Kissy Fest Last Night !:o

Last nights report
18:31 Dale back inside Hideout
19:42 Both Roy and Dale flew off
19:50 Dale on roof
20:07 Dale flew off
21:30 Roy landed in tree and flew to porch for 12 minutes
21:42 Roy enters box to preen and sleep
23:13 Roy flies to lookout
23:15 DodgerGirl goes to sleep and does not report activities for a while and in
in the meantime Roy and Dale return.
00:13 Roy and Dale bond
00:15 Roy and Dale fly off (approx. time)
02:00 Roy and Dale return (approx. time)
02:53 Third owl, possible female, lands on HP, then porch, chased off by Roy
03:46 Roy flew off
03:50 Roy flew off
04:32 Roy lands on HP and goes inside box
05:29 Owl lands on HP
05:32 Owl flies off
05:32 Roy gives chase

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Roy Horks!
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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