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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

1/2 to 1/3 Egg Watch 2012 ...Eggnant Dale scratches the floor!! We are on Egg Watch 2012 !!Video of Third Owl Chased Off ! (awww pEarl)

Three Owls again! Many agree Roy is chasing off our pEarl.

Roy climbs the wallz for the second time! Whitestick cotinues to avert her eyez.. Dale is in nesting mode. What is this? Prior to laying the female pulls apart horks, circles the box, pecks and scratches the floor and sometimes the wall, instinctively preparing the nest for egg arrivals. The Owl Channel is in full swing for 2012!

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In the meantime, When Will Dale Lay the First Egg? Do we want a poll?!

In my video: Roy seems .... a bit confused?! No.. not OUR Roy?! Is it possible to be too OWLtractve?!!

Third owl arrives at hideout, on roof and Roy goes on the offensive to protect Dale and the Hideout, chasing it off. Roy comes back and so does the brazen third owl with Roy hot on his tailfeathers.

2018: Both fly from Hideout
19:05 Roy returns from Hideout
19:06 Dale returns to Hideout
19:25 Roy "pulls a Roy" and starts climbing the walls inside the Hideout
19:25 Dale flies off giggling
19:26 Dale returns to porch
19:29 Dale hops to roof and flies off
19:29 Roy bolts out of box and flies off to follow her
20:29 Flyby towards trees, left of hideout
20:54 Roy enters box
22:09 Dale returns to the Hideout
22:33 Bonding
22:36 Both fly from Hideout
23:13 Roy lands on HP, sings (beak moving but no sound heard)
23:23 Dale arrives home and both go inside box
23:23 Bonding
23:33 Both fly off
23:47 Unknown owl in tree
23:50 Roy lands on HP then flies to box
00:29 Dale arrives at Hideout
00:41 Roy flies off
00:44 Roy returns
00:44 Roy flies off, possible other owl in the area
01:16 Roy arrives on porch, Dale assumes pre-bond crash position,
but Roy remains on porch so she returns her tray table back down
and continues calling for him and reading Peopowl Magazine.
02:18 3rd owl arrives at hideout, on roof and Roy goes on the offensive
to protect Dale and the Hideout, chasing it off. Roy comes back
and so does the brazen 3rd owl, with Roy hot on its tailfeathers,
with Roy chasing it off again. Roy returns home and is greeting by
Dale with kisses on the porch.
03:32 Roy enters box and bonding ensues.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/sets/72157628693086993/with/6626170871/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53907939@N08/ Sher's pic

Thank you DodgerGirl!

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