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Monday, January 16, 2012

1/15 to 1/16- Peeper by the Dozen- 12 bunnies (well, 11 and 1/2) to date and another appearance by MO! Egg Watch 2012 continues!

Some Video Highlights!

Jan 16 2012 4:33AM Dale Rescues Her Rabbit From Roy!
http://youtu.be/inbHNk2kyRI
Please see more highlights at
http://www.youtube.com/owlbertfinn

Roy delivers half a bunny- screenshot taken from Tweetkathleen's Video

1-16-12 2:55am Half of a Bunny Delivery
http://youtu.be/pcY1BV6jftw
Please see more highlights at
http://www.youtube.com/tweetkathleen

Here's the link to the eggcellent guess contest https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKMWcemVDtRdHY1WjBna0ptZTJRQjhlOTJ4TGVmWkE&hl=en_US&pli=1&forumid=602621#gid=0

Owlbert captured Roy delivering the gopher at 1:15 am
http://youtu.be/zMyBK3zTgxg ty Owlbert!

EXCITING ! ROY CHASES MO OFF THE ROOF !!
http://youtu.be/S2II5L141fshttp://youtu.be/5BIBb8so8fMhttp://youtu.be/S2II5L141fshttp://youtu.be/5BIBb8so8fM

Courtesy of Google.com

Dale consumes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2II5L141fs

Another Fractional Rabbit per Lonestar!

gopher at 1:15
rabbit at 2:57. Rabbit still in pantry.(left corner)
MO chased off by Roy 3:30 am

Welcome to our new chatters including Lauralee1776 and HisWhisper, some coming to us from The Eagle Hawk Nest site.. Are you lurking and enjoying the show? Come on in and join our chat, we would love to have you!

TwoOwlWingz ponders: Dale, or Rooster?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56319610@N04/6707781703/in/photostream

Observation:Roy spent much of the day yesterday with his back turned to the camera, negotiating a new contract for 2012 clutch. OCG and his legal team are crunching numbers
PostScipt:
The tabOWL negotiations went well.. OCG and his legal team came to terms with Roy's demands.. which included more nap time.. and... more nap time.

Roy has turned back to the camera today delighting us by consuming the remainder of the fractional rabbit, which Dale at one point tried to take.. (Hello Belle Starr? ring ring.. owls never steal from each other?)
Songbird ponders.. "Just how long are twelve eggs gonna stay up there?!

CK continues with her quest to have at least one owlet, one day, named Kitten.
"I can teach it to meow", replies CuriousityKitten.

"That is One Big Feather" Screenshot by Sher67

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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