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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

3/25 to 3/26 8 treats (but should have been 9... !)

The Owl Channel's Deets and Treats Report: 1 mouse & 7 gophers, Sky downed a gopher by herself, you go Sky!<3

Mission Control found a little "gift" on the patio chair this morning: A bunny (passed away) with talon marks ! Roy dropped this one on the way to the Hideout !

How old are the Songbirds today? Skylark is 16 days old, Starling is 12 days old, Sparrow is 10 days old and Chickadee 8 days old.

Overnight News:
Couleedam's Update:

7:35pm Dale flyabout - returned @ 7:52pm
7:42 Roy came and left a small gopher with the owlets
7:50 Sky got the gopher situated and ate it all by herself!!
8:02 Roy delivered gopher #2 & flew off immediately
9:22 Roy delivered gopher #3 and flew off @ 9:24
9:33 Roy delivered a mouse - Treat#4 and flew off
10:00 Roy delivered a gopher - Treat#5
11:03 to 11:18 A flyabout for Dale
11:42 to 11:47 A flyabout for Dale
11:50 to 11:53 A flyabout for Dale
12:06 Roy delivered a gopher - Treat #6 & flew off @ 12:09
12:12 Roy delivered a gopher - Treat #7 and flew off @ 12:14

Links from the evening's activities
Coulee/Lone Photos

Hundon's Photos

Sher67 Photos

Mom is gone, let’s party:

Let’s sing a song:

fab four by LacyRoze

Roy brings treat #1 (Gopher) while Dale is on a flyabout. Skylark ends up scarfing it down before Dale returns!

Treat # 2 ! by LacyRoze
Treat #2 video by Owlbert

Nat Ow's picsl

Part one of feeding while Dale on flyabout by DebbieMango

Part Two of Skylark eating while Dale on Flyabout by DebbieMango
Birthday card for Chickadee by DebbieMango
Skylark's Easter Bonnet by Ang:
Skylark's Easter Bonnet by EmmieJan

Geeklady's Videos
Dale's flyabout

Roy brings breakfast

Dale moves treat forward

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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