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Monday, February 20, 2012

2/19 to 2/20- Bunnies # 58 #59 and # 60!. Roy gets a look at Ellie, and we continue Hatch Watch Week for our next hero ....

Roy delivers bunny #58 at 6:42pm
Roy delivers bunny #59 at 12:19am
Roy delivers bunny # 60 at 5:01am
OVERNIGHT NEWS:
6:20 pm Roy came in, bonded & left
6:23 pm flyby
6:33 pm Dale 1 minute flyabout
6:42 pm Roy delivered rabbit #58
7:39 to 8:52 pm Roy on HP then to porch

Roy sees Ellie for the first time by Lonestar

Vxns Overnight Photo Set

Coulee and Lonestar Pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/6907819493/in/photostream
vixn's great pic!!!

23:30 pm - 00:15am -- very quiet, Dale asleep, Roy asleep outside on
porch a good part of this time
00:21 am -- Roy arrived with rabbit No. #59 and delivered to Dale; bonding
Dale put rabbit along back wall, close-by to where she was
setting on eggs and Ellie
00:31am -- Dale leaves on short flyabout, with Roy on porch near door
00:31am -- Roy looks in door, and I thought he was going in but he
seemed to decide not to go in.
00:32am -- Dale returns, lands on right side of porch; she heads to door,
but Roy goes in before her!
00:32am -- They both go to back-- ROY SEES ELLIE FOR FIRST TIME,
and touches her with foot. This was only for a second or two
as Dale immediately gets down over eggs and Ellie. Roy goes back out on porch.
00:41 am -- Dale chitters to Ellie and starts a snack and feeding with new rabbit
00:50 am -- Dale and Ellie still eating rabbit
00:55 am -- Dale still eating, but Ellie has 'slowed down', probably stuffed
00:57 am -- "Feeding session" over, all's quiet at the Hideout again, with everyone

01:37 am Roy returns to Hideout, seemed somewhat agitated. He went in, looked at Dale, then goes back outside immediately and flew immediately.

01:38-01:39 am -- "Owls everywhere" in the sky LoL-- Flybys and flyovers, several directions, some in such quick succession that there had to be more than one owl involved. I think Roy was likely chasing "Mystery Owl".

01:40 am-- Roy returns, lands and settles on porch near doorway. Probably on "guard duty" LoL Occasionally he looks up and around like he is watching for "MO". Still there just before 02:00. ~LoneStar

Owlbert's video of Roy seeing Ellie for the first time

Thank you Morning Crew from Tresbien!
!woohoo, a cartoon by VacaDude of Elektra

Elektra by Cartoonist/Illustrator John Vacadude
Dale took very brief flyabout at 4:21am PST and another one at 4:48am PST

Dale had another short flyabout at 3.07
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6908964287/in/photostream

Roy On Watch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6908915087/in/photostream/

4.36am - Lone's pic of roy meeting Ellie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/6909258655/in/photostream/

Thank you Hundon!

Elektra by John Vacadude

Vxns Overnight Slideshow

Ellie cuts out the MiddleMan and goes straight for the Bunny, day 1 by Vxn

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