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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The UPS (Uniterrupted Power Supply) worked as power went out at the Hideout!

Owls thinking "I've been vandOWLized"! (Ty DKOwen lol)

Photo by Tresbien: )

OCG working on the UPS-

A GFI switch tripped and caused the power outage

As GeekLady reported in early chat, the UPS was on although the power was out, and everything is being rebooted this am.

Why do we need a UPS?

Without the UPS, "IF" Dale had been in the box, the camera reset would cause a loud whirring noise as it spins to reset. In the past, Dale has flown away from the Hideout, frightened by the reset. We needed to resolve this critical situation for the future.

OCG installed the UPS with the advice from our GeekLady and with the donation money received and we are happy to say it is working successfully ! Thank you for all of your past donations !

Mission Control is aware of the current glitches with "flashing" cams and will be contacting Ustream to find an answer. Suggestions from Ustream will follow in the next post.

The UFO on Cam2 apparently returned: That is an internal glitch that will require another camera, and more donations: ) Until then, we will just keep our little UFO and name it OWLscar.

The outdoor/landscape lighting is not on a UPS unfortunately. Future donations will help provide another UPS for external yard/ Outpost lighting.Only the early flyby/deet deet by Roy reported last evening.

Lita

Lola keeps an Eye on "Lita"

Meet "Lita"- Lola's Fledgling, at the Outpost Hummingbird Feeder

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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