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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

2/21 to 2/22.. Clark is Here at 6:21 pm! Three bunnies and a gopher overnight! Roy Regifts while delivering, our family continues to grow as we wait for Hero # 3!

OVERNIGHT News
6:21 pm hatch # 2 Clark Kent

6:43 pm #63 rabbit delivery by Sher

Clark with Ellie

7:02 Flyabout

Feeding adventures :

Lady Lauras Pics

LoneStar & coulee pics

Evening Recap by Lonestar!

After a long feeding of rabbit (assuming #63) to Ellie and Clark, until they wouldn't take any more, there was mostly a bit plus the hind feet left, and Dale finished that off at 22:37pm. I can't tell if any more "leftover" rabbit in back.

A couple of flyovers while I watched, from 11:30pm to 12 mt, and Dale called so was likely Roy, but otherwise have not seen Roy again. Extremely quiet at the Hideout.

Ooops spoke too soon. While writing this-- Roy visits, and bonding. I don't believe he brought treat but I didn't see him come in-- but I don't see anything additional in front of Dale. The bonding visit was at 00:04 (12:04am). Afterwards Roy was sitting on porch-- Dale chittered to him, and he flew immediately. Wonder if she "sent him after food" LoL??

Well, Dale must have indeed sent Roy after food, as he arrived with prey within 30 minutes LoL!!

00:29 (12:29am) -- Roy arrives with small prey, goes in, passes it off to Dale, and immediately leaves, no bonding. The prey looked relatively small, when Roy arrived on porch, not like rabbit at all. Plus he arrived with it in beak, not in talons.

She had her back to us, head towards back wall, so we could not see it. However we got a brief look later, after a feeding session, when Dale turned around and finished off what was left (00:39). It was small-ish, very dark fur. It was very likely a gopher... definitely not a rabbit (no rabbit legs, feet). Thank you Lonestar!

From Hundon:

1.36 - 3.15am. Roy arrived with a rabbit at 2 am, and bonding
Dale went on flyabout at 2.24

Rabbit #64
Dale is feeding them at 4:19am PST.

Rabbit #65 5:41am

GeekLady's delivery video

Roy Regifts the bunny:

Photo by Tresbien

Roy delivers a bunny (what a surprise).. He then sees the previous bunny in the corner, picks it up and Regifts, presenting his Lady Love with Two bunnies at once.. where else but The Owl Channel!? Video by GeekLady, ty!

"Dale... What about "this" bunny over here?? Huh? Did you forget about this one, honey?"
Bunny # 65
Video by Geeklady
2/22 5:41 am Roy Regifts while delivering!

Twins!? Dale observes new delivery and the Regift

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