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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Kabi the Hawk visits and Dale stopped by for a while overnight

Many chatters saw our resident Hawk, Kabi, on the Lookout this morning. Kabi (named for "Kabillion") has been with us for a few weeks now.. Assuming he is a male, he is out of sight for days but then is seen cruising the area in the daytime and roosting "across the highway" on one of the New Homes, on a certain chimney, seen through binoculars.
Yesterday Kabi was rushed by at least 10 crows throughout Mission Control's yard.. he didnt seem concerned in the least. He appears to be a younger male who has chosen this as his territory ! Seeing him on the Lookout is a bit disconcerting, but we didnt have owls or babies on board so all okay: )

Lonestar's screenie of Kabi the Hawk

Here we are Mid October, about a month and half away from our possible beginning of the Spring Clutch, how exciting!

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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