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Sunday, April 22, 2012

4/22 to 4/23 Four treats and Ellie amazes with her SpiderWoman imitation!

Just the Factz Fling & Fly Report© Total 4: Roy & Dale know it's time to slim down the heroes and brought 1 rabbit, 1 gopher, 1 rodent and 1 mouse. Ellie impressed with Spiderwoman imitation!

Up On The Roof by EmmieJan!

Night's Highlights by Lonestar
8:52 roy to clark rabbit
9:37 roy mouse
-- Gopher by Roy, Dee eventually got it
1:39am -- "Big Rodent"... we aren't sure, either gopher or large rat. Also unsure of who brought it.

Lots of exciting events and "firsts" tonight--
Dee out on porch several times
Ellie goes to lower right hitching post-- and on return "misses" porch, and ends up hanging upside down under porch until she flies back down to hitching post. Next attempt she gets back to porch.
Ellie also flies up to roof, and spends quite some time up there exploring (and figuring out how to get down).

OCG's new pics

Dee and Clark Watch Ellie Fly

Two porch, one roof

Wingersizing with a squirt on the side video

Ellie plays Spiderwoman video

Comparison

Ellie Stands up on rooftop
Watch Ellie come from behind hideout video

Ellie on roof

Vxn's pics

Dee pouncing and wing flapping

Kissy kissy owlets

Dee pulling Ellie's tail feathers

new video by EmmieJan, "Upon the Roof"

Roy Delivers a Mouse 9:36PM:

Ellie Flies About The Hideout/Rabbit Delivery

Ellie & Clark Out Playing/Roy Gopher Delivery

Roy Delivers A Treat 1:38AM

Since tomorrow is the first anniversary of Roy's arrival at the Hideout, we thought it would be a fun idea to have an anniversary party. Dress Code is come as you are and it starts at sunset!

Sunset will be at 7:25pm PDT, but we'll start celebrating Roy's arrival at the Hideout around 7 o'clock April 24th to accommodate those of us on the east coast. :-)

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