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Saturday, April 6, 2013

4/5 to 4/6 Many treats, Chickadee eats her first bunny, and sparrow and Skylark get into Owltercation !

OWLtercation !!

The Owl Channel's Deets and Treats Report: 8 treats - Roy 5 (4 gophers, 1 mouse) Dale 3 rabbits

7:42 pm Dale's flyabout - returned @ 7:45pm

7:46 pm Chickadee horked

7:55 pm MO on rear side of the roof of the owlbox

8:18 pm Roy with gopher (treat 1) (Sky got the gopher)

8:25pm Dale flyabout

8:53 pm Dale returned with rabbit (treat 2) Chickadee ate the rabbit unassisted by Dale 9:03 pm

Roy with mouse (treat 3) - possibly Starling got it

9:07 pm there was a disgruntled owlet beak fight - Dale broke it up Roy went to the lookout and didn't leave until 1104pm

Dale left @ 11:35pm

Roy arrived with a gopher(treat #7) - Sparrow downed it immediately 3:02am -

Dale sweeps the HO and finds the leftover gopher in the left corner

Dale shreds some small pieces to Sparrow, but he becomes too full and Dale leaves the rest

3:07am - Dale leaves

Meanwhile the leftover gopher makes its way around the perimeter of the HO while Sky and others move it up close to the front lol

Sky finally scarfs down the remains of the gopher(which was treat #6) at 3:23am

The Owl Channel's Deets and Treats Report: 8 treats - Roy 5 (4 gophers, 1 mouse) Dale 3 rabbits

Debbie's slideshow
Lone & coulee's pics:

Sher's pics

Dale in tree with rabbit before latest delivery ty GL

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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