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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

8/17 pics, videos and the GoogAbout! Submit your Fred quips !

Belle Starr in "As The Hork Turns!" Cheered on by Mothra! Hork at approx .58 video by Owlfinn!

August 17: Dale delivers a big one ! Video by Owlfinn

Dale watches over the kidz from The Lookout August 17th 1:45 am

From SLCBirder: Sung to the tune of Mrs.O'Leary's Cow
(Goes with Hundon's Photo Me Me Me !

Late last night, when I was home in bed,
Roy’s gal Dale took a gopher to the shed,
And after Boone snatched it over, he winked his eye and said: “There’ll be a hot time in the Hideout tonight
Mine! Mine! Mine!”

Screenshot by EmmieJan

The GoogAbout!-KathyGoog's Travels across the States with Hubby!

Day 15~Tuesday~Out of Seattle, the busiest traffic we have been in so far. On to Mt. St Helens, where eruption of 1980 is still very evident. Many hills in area still covered with downed trees, large parcels in process of trees dying and many sections replanted with new trees. The scope of the area affected is hard to comprehend. We cross border into OR on Rt 101 & stop at Cannon Beach on our way to hotel in Rockaway Beach. Hotel room walks out to beach & this area of the Pacific is soooo clean! There is NO seaweed, NO shells & NO garbage, even at low tide! Only managed to get our feet wet, as this water is much colder than the Atlantic in CT!

Day 16~Wednesday~We continue south on Rt 101, with mountains on the left and cliffs/Pacific Ocean on our right. Driftwood (sometimes entire trees) are washed up on shore, but there is no other litter; the absence of it makes for a breathtaking, beautiful shoreline, with humongous rocks rising up out of water. Entering CA, we are stopped at border by "Agricultural Check Point" agent, looking for fruits & vegetables in car. Really!! We arrive in Crescent City for the night, where they had a powerful tsunami surge in March this year from Japan earthquake. Our room is once again ocean front, this time with a lighthouse in view. After dinner, we are entertained by the seals on the rocks 'talking' to each other.

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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