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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

3/4 to 3/5 Regifting Roy flies in with sketti in his beak

Roy visits with sketti hanging from his beak
Tresbien's Owlwitness News©: Roy delivered 2 mice and a gopher. On his last visit, when food dangled from his beak, Dale said, Roy don't fly with your mouth full. Were you raised in a barn?
We were entertained to see Roy fly in, with part of a treat still dangling in his mouth.. guess he was eating on "the fly " !

LacyRoze's Overnight Rundown: OCG says Thank you to all the folks providing constant entertaining and informative videos.

Debbiemango's pics

First treat

Dales flyabout

Coulee & Lone's pics:

Hundons pic of the regifting

Roy brings a mouse

Dale's stretch & flyabout

Second mouse delivery

Dale goes on flyabout

You will notice Roy's behaviour when he regifts.. he is looking around the box, checking to see if any babies have arrived. The regifting ritual is one of the chatter's favorite things to watch.. He hands back a "treat" (rodent variety) as if to say "Hey, are you going to eat this? Did you forget it was here? " We will soon see Roy step up the pace with deliveries as we are "almost" officially on Hatchwatch !

Did you know?...
Some barn owls are polygynous, or have more than one mate at a time. While it is mostly males who engage in this practice, some females are also known to mate with more than one male."

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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