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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
1/3 to 1/4 Overnight
Roy brings in the rabbit 5:18 am. video by Owlbert:
5:25 pm Rasping began by Dale 5:56-6:04 Roy to door back inside 6:05-7:20 Back inside with 6:38 pm Bonding 7:20 pm Bonding - Dale hasn't left yet 7:22-7:27 kissy face, allopreening and Dale laying down a few times tonight 8:20-8:35 Roy to Roof 835-8:39 Roy goes inside with Dale, Dale wanted love yet Roy was preoccupied with perhaps a visitor owl 8:39-8:46 Roy to porch blocking doorway 8:46-9:00 Dale takes off with Roy following 9:00 Roy to roof, Dale to porch then inside. 9:00 Dale waits for Roy 9:05 Roy returns to porch and they both fly off. 9:23 Roy returns singing 9:53 still awaiting for Dale's return. Thank you TweetKathleen!
22:18 Roy flies off 22:28 Roy lands on porch 23:02 Dale returns, bonding occurs inside Hideout 23:53 Roy flies off to lookout 00:04 Dale flies to HP and flies off 00:46 Both return 01:23 Dale flies off 02:53 Dale returns 02:55 Both fly off 03:01 Both flew back, Bonding took place 03:06 Both flew to HP, still there as of 03:35 when I logged off. http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/sets/72157628710893511/
Have a look at this owl cam, what a hoot - if he's there when you look, its a racowln
Thank you Hundon! This morning's highlight was the bunny breakfast delivered by Roy, which Dale took off with and ate away from the Hideout. Deemed to be a bunny by popular vote after some discussion in chat and on Facebook. Thank you Tresbien! LvOwl's eggcellent observation: Has anyone noticed a brood patch on Dale yet?!
LacyRoze also observing Dale sitting for 5 to 10 minutes at a time.. We are close.. but how close?! It's anyone's guess right now!
Dale enjoys her treat outside by Tresbien January 4th 5:44 am
Roy brings in the first Treat in the Box for 2012... and it's a.... ? doozy !
5:45 am: Dale returns... takes the treat out !! (Hmm.. wonder how Belle got her "stealies" genetics??
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
March 12th Dale and Ellie 2012
In Memory of McGee 2010.. 2012
March 5th 2012
Three Little Heroes Beak Festing by TwoOwlWingz 2/27/12
