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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Just the early Dale sighting last night, quiet at all the sites

Quiet at the Hideout, Oceanside and Starr.. Just the early sighting of Dale.. Perhaps they will come to visit tonight?

Memory Lane:
During our spring clutch, over 300 + bunnies were delivered and consumed by Dale (Momma) and subsequently Ellie, Clark and Dee. Below is the video of rabbit #271.. why is this one specially noted? Well, it actually arrived twice. Roy delivers the bunny to Dee on the porch, and Dee drops it. Ellie is in the hideout and Dee, still on the the porch and the bunny is down on the ground. OCG with a flashlight found the bunny, and in spectacular Fling and Fly Fashion flung the bunny back up to the Hideout in one toss. Dee remained oblivious (lol) but you see Ellie cautiously come out to the porch and retrieve the bunny. This was a fast and furious and fantastic fledging time here at The Owl Channel, just one moment among great memories.. and the best is yet to come !

Our moderators, like TwoOwlWingz, are wonderful at bringing us back to memory lane linking moments in time for us to enjoy in chat. Thanks always to all our video takers and photographers who make this place so fun. Thanks to Owlbertfinn as always for capturing the moments!

OCG fling & Fly - Memory Lane

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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