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Thursday, January 12, 2012
1/11 to 1/12- What! No Bunny?!
Overnight Report
6:05 pm - Bonding 6:07 pm - Roy went hunting 8:42 pm - Roy flew back to tree empty handed Thank you TweetKathleen!
20:41 Roy back 20:49 Bonding 20:53 Roy flies off 22:00 Dale flies off 22:02 Dale returns 22:18 Roy or MO (Romo) lands on HP and flies to tree 22:25 Romo flies off 22:44 Roy lands on HP, flies to roof, goes to porch and inside box 22:48 Bonding 00:16 Dale goes on a flyabout 00:19 Dale returns 00:56 Roy lands on HP, goes to porch 01:13 Bonding 01:15 Roy flies off 01:18 Dale flies off 01:30 Dale returns to HP (possibly with small prey) 02:09 Roy flies from lookout cam and bonding occurs 02:10 Roy flies off http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/sets/72157628835743075/
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
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