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Saturday, March 24, 2012

3/23 to 3/24 5 treats, mystery owl chase. Dale is out for the day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dkowen! <3

Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: Total 5: Wrangler Roy nabbed 3 rabbits, 1 bird and 1 rat. Mystery owl chase was the night's highlight. Dale is out for the day.

How old are the Hero's today? Ellie is 34 days, Clark is 32 days and Dee is 28 days old. Happy Four Week Birthday, Dee!

12:30 am Vxn reports Roy landing on the Lookout and giving out at least 30 warning screeches.The heroes remain silent and motionless as instinct kicked in listening to daddy's call !

Dale's Last Quick Visit

Dale's Last Checkin before Heading to the Palmz for the Day

Stealies, Part 1: Roy delivers a rabbit to Clark, Ellie takes it!

Stealies, Part 2 ~

Ellie finishes Rabbit # 167

Heroes stop feasting as Owl Chase Ensues on the Roof! 12:14 am

Roy Delivers small bird

Treat treat who has the treat?

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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