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Sunday, February 12, 2012
2/12 early evening news and updates... (Please see previous posts for last night's activity)
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Our Friend and Super LaMOWLze Mod KSBORN has some bragging rights she would like to share:! From KSBORN:
My Cousin has this Beautiful Dog Named Huff and he was entered in the Dorito's Crash the Super Bowl Contest and Guess What He Won and Out of ALL of the Commercials on Super Bowl his was Ranked #2......Here is this Commercial
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Congrats KSBORN on your cousin's victory and almost 3 million hits wow!
Can he link to The Owl Channel?! :o
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As we approach Hatch, Here is our TripOWLcrown Spreadsheet.. thank you chatters, moderators and LVOWLS for coordinating over 200 guesses! Will you be the winner of bragging rights??!
On an unrelatOWLd subject, check out how our youth perceive and identify Popular Advertising logos... My favorite is that she identified the McDonalds logo as a french fry shaped into an M...
"Graphic Designer Adam Ladd collected 35 to 40 brand logos and recorded his daughter Faith’s reaction upon seeing them."
When she sees the Google Chrome logo, for instance, she says:
"That looks like a beach ball; beach balls are very colorful."
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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