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Friday, March 9, 2012

3/8 to 3/9 Two bunnies, two mice: very nice !

How old are our Heroes today? Ellie is 19 days, Clark is 17 days and Dee is 13 days old!

Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report: Wrangler Roy stepped up again and brought 2 rabbits (#105 and #106) and 2 mice After several feedings, the owlets are in food comas! Like Mom, Ellie enjoys rabbit legs.
Clark also downed a huge leg yesterday but the view was hidden as usual.. Clark, like his Persona, gulps in Stealth Mode!

March 8 2012 6:20PM Dale's Flyabout!
　

March 8 2012 10:30PM Rabbit Delivery #105
　

March 9 2012 1:45AM Rabbit Delivery #106!

　

March 9 2012 3:19AM Mouse Delivery!

a song by Indoorable!

(8) Here we come.. flying down the street,
We get the funniest looks when, we eat our Rabbit Meat,

Hey Hey we're the Heroes ! People say we're hooting around,
We're too busy eating.. I hope Roy's coming around (8)

We're just trying to be fledglings, come and watch us hoot and fly..
Cause we're the young generation, and soon we'll be waving goodbye !

Bravo Indoorable (clappy things)

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