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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Gopher, bunny.. and... holy cow another bunny! Another night with two bunnies delivered !

Overnight activity included an early snack (gopher)..and... another Bunny... Which makes 7 so far for Egg Watch 2012!
As the author types this, hold the presses... !
4:33 am Roy just delivered another bunny to Dale..
ANOTHER bunny.. which makes 8 bunnies for Clutch 2 2012!

Three overnight treats: One gopher, Two bunnies
Overnight News!
17:51 Bonding
18:35 Roy flies off
18:38 Dale flies off
18:39 Dale returns
19:40 Unknown owl on lookout cam
20:08 Dale flies off
20:10 Dale returns
20:38 Roy returns and delivers a gopher to Dale
20:39 Roy flies off
20:48 Roy returns
20:51 Roy flies off
21:06 Flyby
21:54 Roy returns and delivers a rabbit to Dale
23:13 Both Roy and Dale fly off from the porch
23:23 Owl lands on lower perch
23:27 Owl flies off from lower perch
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Thank you DodgerGirl!

3 am Chat was very quiet - Dale finished of the wabbit and spent some time preening and calling for Roy, to no avail.

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Thank you Hundon!

Early AM
Third treat delivery (Roy took the rabbit's head and she put rest in back right corner):

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgTi4f5LwMs&feature=youtu.be by GeekLady
Roy returned to the box at 6:12.

Thank you Tresbien!

　More chatters are joining us as we head into Eggsiting days.. Welcome to Jdukarich from Chantilly, VA!

Have you visited Owlcamguy's website lately? Fantastic updates, and be sure to peruse information on Roy and Dale, The First Clutch, as we prepare for their second clutch as an Owlsome Couple
http://www.owlchannel.com

8th bunny delivery Video by angowleyez

Photos by GeekLady!

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Hundon's Dottie: )!

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