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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Ellie is here: ) And she is Elektra- ic! 4:44 bunny #57 for Ellies breakfast!

Ellie's First Feeding: Amazing Video by OCG

First glimpse of Ellie at 4:30 by Geeklady

Can I have bunny too? Screenshot by Hundon: Ellie, four hours old, has several large gulps of bunny !

Ellie popped right from her shell
For some it was too quick to tell.
But word among the chatters spread
And now to this site they are wed. -FloridaSkye:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra_(comics)
Elektra

OVERNIGHT NEWS3:38 am Ellie arrives...

6:22 pm Roy appears & bonds with Dale
6:24pm Roy flies off
7:17pm Dale goes to porch but doesn't fly off
7:21pm Dale leaves on a flyabout
Roy chases MO at 8:36 and then goes in owlbox and preens Dale until 8:51pm a regular lovefest
stayed on porch until 911 and then flew off
9:26 roy back on porch
9:51 pm bonding & back to porch
9:53 pm Roy flew off
9:58 pm kewl flyby right towards cam

tonight's pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/sets/72157628845913893/

photo from ElfOwl http://www.flickr.com/photos/56882274@N00/6900755769/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6900357797/in/photostream

OCG pic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRE5r8hWd3s

GeekLady's close up of Ellie vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRE5r8hWd3s

Owlbert's happy hatch day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT_czFaToOo&feature=youtu.be

Ellie's first delivery by tresbien
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/6902268971/in/photostream

and by GeekLady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n48HInOFi2w&feature=youtu.be

GL's video of Dale & Ellie chatting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RBaPZwSaoM&feature=youtu.be

The Ballad of Dale and Roy by Dotrot!

The Ballad of Roy and Dale

Come and listen to the story of an owl named Roy

When he hatched, Momma said, “That’s my boy!”

He grew to become the quintessential male

Then into his life flew that beauty named Dale.

Female, that is

Soul mate

Love at first sight

Well, the first thing you know, Roy’s got a new life

He soon had a mortgage and lovely wife

She looked at him with a twinkle in her eyes

Twenty, I think, is a clutch of perfect size.

Eggs, that is

(Just kidding)

Wake up! Roy??

Roy soon found that that his leisure days were gone

He worked all night from dusk to early dawn

He hunted and hunted and then hunted some more

Dale said, “Without a bunny, don’t come through the door.

Wabbit, that is

Big feet

Wascally

They’ve made their home in a box up in the air

Chatters far and wide come to chat and share

Little do they know people watch all they do

As hatch time approaches, the chatters come unglued.

Crazy, that is

Obsessed

Animal lovers all

Now we’d like to thank you folks for kindly stopping in

We’re hear day and night, make sure to come again

The Owl Cam Guy is our gracious host

Of hero votes, he’ll surely get the most

Winner, that is

Great guy

Y’all come back now, ya’ hear??

Thank you Dot!: )

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