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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

3/13 to 3/14 NINE treats overnight- First three within Twenty Minutes!

a very very HAPPY birthday to our friend in fowl, TS AFFIRTH! Give her a hug when you see her: )!..
Roy delivers! Just the Factz Fling and Fly Report: Total NINE (9) Treats: Three Rabbits, Two Voles, Four Mice in between kisses, longer Flyabouts, and a Roy Mystery Owl Chase !
More to come !
Rabbits # 125, 126 and #127~

Video Highlights of last night, thank you Geeklady, Owlbert!

Ellie, how you have grown

Dale, Ellie, Clark and Dee closeup

Roy delivers dinner

Roy delivers second course

Family feasting

Dessert

The Chase:

What Vole? (Roy delivers to the babies at 2:13 am, Ellie gulps it in 4 minutes)

Here's a wonderful pic OCG took of Dale on flyabout

Kissy Kissy face on the HP

Owlet hissing during Roy's visit

# 125

A contender: I am not quite a ball

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A song by Indoorable to start off the night:

1, 2, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock Hork..
5, 6 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock Hork...
9, 10 11, o'clock, 12 o'clock Hork,.
We're gonna Hork, around, the clock tonight (8)
We're gonna Hork Hork Hork til the broad daylight
We're gonna Hork around the clock tonight...

When the clock strikes 2.. 3 and 4..
I'm gonna Hork one up and yell for more,
I'm gonna Hork around the clock tonight,
I'm gonna Hork Hork Hork til dawn's daylight,
I'm gonna Hork gonna Hork around the clock tonighttttt~~

Yes.. May I help you please?

"Kindly ask Roy to bring more sliders tonight", says Dale

From March 12th , video by Tweet Kathleen:
Ellie downs a slider, but takes a piece off and feeds it to Clark

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