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Sunday, March 31, 2013

3/30 to 3/31

The Owl Channel's Deets and Treats Report: Dale brought in 3 gophers & Roy brought in 1 rabbit and 6 gophers. Total treat count 10!!

How old are the Songbirds today? Skylark is 21 days old, Starling is 17 days old, Sparrow is 15 days old and Chickadee 13 days old. Happy Three Week Birthday Skylark!

Overnight Wrap UP

7:47 Dale left for her flyabout
8:05 Treat # 1: Dale returned with a mouse or small gopher (Skylark took it and ate it)
8:07 Treat # 2 Roy delivered a gopher (Sparrow ate it)
8:13 Roy delivered a live rabbit and Dale fed the other owlets
9:17 Roy delivered a gopher and flew away
11:00 pm Roy delivered a gopher Treat #5

LoneStar & Coulee's pics

Vxn's screenshots
Midges photos

DebbieMango's slideshow and Easter Card
VIDEOS
Dale goes on a flyabout at 7:47 and returns with (unknown). Skylark ate it fast!

Warning!! Roy brings a live rabbit #6 at 8:14 3-30-13 Starling Sparrow and Chickadee eat

Roy brings a mouse at 8:06, a gopher at 9:17, another gopher at 9:22

Sky in back and Star in front. Both with gophers

11pm Roy brings a gopher. Star tries very hard to un-zip it
1:19am - Dale looks out door and Roy flies in with a gopher - treat #7
1.35aom - Roy departs
1.37am - Dale goes on a four minute flyabout. Returns to the tree and then to the box.
2.50am - Dale feeds the Owlets with one and a half gophers she had in the pantry.
A pic from earlier in the evening

A cute pic from Nat of Sky/Shelley interaction

As of 3.32am Roy did not return until 5:55 am

5:23 am Dale brought in a small gopher . Dale left right away and came back at 5:45

Sky Scarfs up 5:23 am gopher

4:48am - Dale returns from flyabout with GOPHER

5:23am - Dale returns from flyabout...Gopher, Treat # 9, saw Sky eating something right after her return (at 5:24am)

Sky downing treat:
5:43am - Dale returns from flyabout, no treat

5:55am - Roy makes pre-sunrise visit, brings GOPHER 10 ** Dale puts it along left wall, just out of camera view

Unzipped gopher:
Family portrait:

Roy brings breakfast

March 31 2013 5:55AM Roy Delivers A Treat:

Happy Easter & Happy Spring
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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