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Sunday, February 3, 2013

3 treats (and Roy eats another slider! MO still around !

Owlwitness News©: With Year of the Rabbits over, Roy returns to bringing a mix of rodents including mice, one of which he ate, and a gopher. Beautiful visitor owl was a fine subject for OCG's camera.

UPDATE! With the recent contributions we were able to purchase a new camera. Many of you may have seen flashes last night. OCG is practing and acquainting with the new settings. As you can see as we know from history, the owls are not perturbed by the flashes. We are excited to be able to produce some outstanding pics these clutch. What a treat as MO showed up last night and OCG clicked away. Dale did not seem in the least perturbed by MO. Many chatters feel it is one of our previous babies returning.

We are going to be doing some remodeling of the Lookout. It is very worn out. It will be going down with the assistance as always of OCG Jr. OCG is preparing a new roof today. We are very excited by the donations from Indiego and our loyal fans to help us with these ventures.

How adorable is Dale? We love see her in this Eggnant stage!

We here at Mission Control are SO excited.. thanks to our loyal moderators and fans. Thanks to new folks coming in the join the room. And as always, thanks to our fantastic folks taking snapshots and videos. Owl Channel....Owl the news, owl the time !
Love, angowleyez

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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