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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Chickadee arrived 3/18 at 10:34 pm !

The Owl Channel's Deets and Treats Report: One Rabbit, Two Gophers and a Mouse, with Roy regifting himself a Gopher. All have dined well all night into the morning !

How old are the Songbirds today? Skylark is 9 days old, Starling is 5 day old, Sparrow is 3 days old and welcome Chickadee.

Dale did a flyabout at 7:32 Roy bought a Rabbit at 8:18 then a gopher at 9:10.

Roy chased off MO at 9:35 then sat on roof while Chickadee hatched at 10:34

Lonestar's Info on Egg #5 ; Egg5 Hatch: 30d 10h 33m (a bit over 730 hours), possibly the shortest incubation/hatch time of any egg any clutch (here).

LoneStar & Coulee's pics:
GeekLady Dale feeds the songbirds http://youtu.be/lE9tOqy6wWw

Chickadee by Dandilion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8VJESPIzRQ&fea

YOUTUBE SITES:

http://www.youtube.com/owlcamguy
Owlcamguy

http://www.youtube.com/angowleyez

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjuliz/ Flicker
Angowleyez

http://www.youtube.com/debbiemango
DebbieMango

http://www.youtube.com/emmiejanjan
EmmieJan

http://www.youtube.com/user/mrdrake02012
GeekLady

http://www.youtube.com/owlbertfinn
OwlbertFinn

http://www.youtube.com/tweetkathleen
TweetKathleen
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Photostreams:

DebbieMango's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/people/debbiemango/

Dkowen's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76936062@N04/

EmmieJan's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/

Hundon's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54060665@N03/

LacyRoze Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/71446497@N07/

Lixon's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lixon1/

MidgesMom Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87192706@N03/

NatOwllover's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06/sets/72157632592344686/detail/

OwlbertFinn's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58330251@N08/

Sher's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53907939@N08/

TweetKathleen's Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweetkathleen/

TwoOwlWingz Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/56319610@N04/

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