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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

4/17 and 4/18 Five treats, both Clark and Ellie on the porch !

How old are the heroes today? Ellie, 59 Clark 57 and Dee 53 days old
Fledge Facts:

1st exit=.50 to 60 days of age. Branching= 55 to 65 days of age. Usual 1st full flight= 60 to 70 days. Adult Owl @Day 80. Usually fully fledged between 86-90 days

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Clark and Ellie both on the porch!

Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report© Total 5: A night of true fling & fly deliveries of 3 hearty rabbits and 2 gophers. Clark and Ellie both looked for deliveries on the porch.

Recap Highlights:
Ellie went out for the first time at 11:45pm. She did about 4 revolving door excursions and a little bit longer one until 12:09am. Lots of wing flapping, while Clark looked on from the door and bobbing his head. Dee even got to the doorway. A parent was on the lookout then to the tree deeting, while Ellie was outside. Both Ellie and Clark watched her.

Clark and Ellie on the porch.
Clark stepping out by Hundon
Sher67: Gopher & Rabbit #247 Delivered 8:12& 816PM:
Rabbit Delivery #248 11:05PM
Dee Does Stealies Gets Rest of Rabbit 8:28PM:
(Although this looked like a handoff from Ellie to Dee! )
Roy delivers a gopher 9:17 pm

Clark and Ellie both on Porch 2:15 am

Three Heroes Roosting on One Leg
Clark's Wing

Photo by Geek Lady
Family Portrait during Lens Cleaning by Sher
Latest Rabbit Delivery
Beautiful Pic from Couleedam
Beautiful Pic from Dkowen
Nice capture from Lonestar
Fog Rolling in by Sher
Dkowen's Pic

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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