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Friday, March 16, 2012

3/15 to 3/16 Total FIVE: 3 rabbits, gopher and vole: Ellie did a big "stealies" from Clark. Dee ate a thigh and leg!

Just the Factz Fling and Fly Report: Five overnight treats: Three Bunnies # 131, 132 and #133 a vole and a gopher.

5:28 one more bunny # 133
Bunny # 133 by GeekLady

5:49 am update: The Lone Star overnight Report-- ~Treat Total 4 ~ 2 rabbits, 131-132 (8:26p, 12:10a); 1 vole (11:13p, Ellie); 1 gopher (01:44a, Dee). Last rabbit was very large. ALL owlets have eaten well.

Thanks to chatters that helped me put together report, always appreciated

From litlvxn: and Dee ate a whole bunny thigh and leg!

The Big Stealie:
As I watched Clark downing a bunny leg and thigh, Dale went on a flyabout. While trying to gulp back the treat, it brushed up against Ellie, who grabbed one of the feet with her beak. A tug of war ensued! and then... Ellie, in a big sisterly very um... lets say slightly aggressive way, lunged and grabbed the treat away from Clark ! A stealie, lunge! A.... Slungie?! I don't even know what to call it !

All the babies ate VERY well overnight..Dale continues to feed bits and chunks to Dee who enjoys being the youngest, yet Dee also swallows bunny parts and rodents whole.

Roy delivers a gopher to Dee at 1:45 am

March 15th Slideshow

Tribute to Molly and McGee from Emmiejan

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