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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

1/16 to 1/17- Bunny #13! A Steal from Roy, and Eggcomingtitus (tm Hundon) Watch Continues!

Special welcome to new members of the Blue Team incl: Dkowen, NatOwlLover, Dizzyts, and ShortEaredOwl (Elfowl) with special Guest Moderator Whitedog01: )

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What do I have to do to get you to notice me, poke your eye out? From NatOwLover

TweetKathleen caught the 13th Bunny Delivery, thank you TweetKathleen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HbthyetPts&feature=g-all-u&context=G2866110FAAAAAAAAAAA

Overnight Report:

7 to midnight, all quiet

12:40 White Tail Bunny delivered.

1:30 MidgesMom reports a bunny was delivered, and both Midges and MagicLantern note that it was used for a "pillow" for about an hour !!

Dale took a brief five minute flyabout and returned with Roy and started chowing down on Bunny #13 for the Second Clutch Season.The head was missing on this white cottontail, as songbird mentions that Roy is always "ahead" of the game !

Lonestar mentioned : “This is the first cottontail rabbit I've seen delivered anywhere (owl-speaking)”

1:25 to 1:45 a.m Dale shredded

1:57 Loud Screech heard from afar got both Dale and Roy's attention

Lone mentioned that many chatter's guesses may have been clouded by wishful thinking, and Goldshadow replied “Good grief, are we all suffering from eggsasperation?

Hundon thinks, eggcitement?

Goldshadow replies: Eggsomethingoranother!

Songbird75 says “ know I'm suffering from eggsighyment!!”

Here is Dale, First Clutch, with a case of Eggcomingtitus, from Hundon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/5836282004/in/set-72157624982936920

If you are on Facebook, here is Hundon's short film of a Short Eared Owl in Hundon England:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150523647180053

Welcome to some of our new chatters, including passifloraFoetida who works with Wildlife rehabilitation. Are you enjoying the show from the "wings"? Please come in and join our friendly chat!

Units of Mouse to Rabbit, from Molly

http://mollysbox.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/molly-chart-4-jun-4.jpg

Thanks NatOwlLover for reposting this!

3:14 Roy departs for a two minute flyabout, perhaps checking the perimeters

3:30 dale departs for a two minute flyabout, potty break

Starr Ranch Update: There are 5 owlets at Starr ranch now, 6th expected tomorrow

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