Looking for the Owl Channel Blog? Click below please for the new location !: 3/10 to 3/11 Wrangler Roy brought in 6 bunnies !

Sunday, March 11, 2012

3/10 to 3/11 Wrangler Roy brought in 6 bunnies !

Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: Total SIX: Wrangler Roy brought 6 rabbits overnight, the sixth confirmed by OCG video.
Bunnies # 111, 112, 113, 114, 115 and 116 ! (BTW.. #116 was the rabbit head only, but still counts !)

Dale has an errant Nose Hair.. we took care of it.. Pic by OCG: )

Overnight News:

Rabbit # 111 7:41pm, intact

Dale flyabout 6:27 to 6:29 pm
Rabbit from Roy @ 6:41 pm with head
7:33 Roy in tree
8:24 pm Rabbit 112 delivered
8:30 pm feeding session
9:41 to 9:43 flyabout
Coulee's Pics

4 treats so far - all rabbits -
7:41pm #111
8:24pm #112
10:36pm #113
1:48am #114
12:02- Clark tries to no avail to down big chunk of rabbit legs - http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/6825747366/in/photostream

12:26-12:46am- flyabout - kids hissed at Dale who was on porch, but they couldn't see that it was her from back wall - http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlvxn/6825726240/in/photostream -- was hilarious to all us watching

Clark attempted a mighty gulp of a huge portion of bunny.. Ellie picked it up later after Roy stopped in to do a pantry inspection, and did the biggest gulp we have seen to date.

Our heroes today are Ellie 21 days, Clark 19 days and Dee 15 days. Happy 3 week birthday Ellie !

Roy with Bunny # 4 of the evening

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