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Plowin' with the birds photo

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Mn Dave

11-12-2005 04:43:19

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I moldboard all my corn ground in the fall and usually towards the end of plowing the sea gulls show up and have a feast on my angle worms and hopefully corn borers and root worms. Photo taken while plowing peat. Have a few areas of peat on the farm and if drained well produces some of the best crops. I double disk the stalks first and then go like crazy as it pulls easy. Most of the time it don't scour for crap as it is to loose.

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buickanddeere

11-12-2005 17:51:47

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

We call them beach chickens or sh*t hawks. Getting them into a feeding frenzy with bread, then throwing them Alka Seltzer tablets is tons of fun. I don't know if it's fatal but they do a bunch of squawking. Or dosing the bread with ultra hot habanera pepper sauce is another favorite pass time. When ploughing however a few looks around to make certain the Conservation Officers are not around. Then a few well placed rounds of .22 makes the rest leave in a hurry. I don't like the nice new green paint on the tractor getting repainted white.

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Bill(Wis)

11-13-2005 06:02:10

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to buickanddeere, 11-12-2005 17:51:47

You know..... Dearborn Motors' (Ford) solution to your problem was to paint the hoods and fenders of their tractors with a color (excuse me, colour) that would blend in nicely with bird droppings. After much research and trial and error they came up with a near perfect match. Part # is LP4857RPA ($46US per gal) Hardener LP3957HD ($26US per quart). Just in case you wanted to ... well, maybe not,... but still...

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Bill(Wis)

11-12-2005 11:24:27

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

Are there any bird experts around? I think those are Herring Gulls because of their black wingtips but I don't really know. We've always called them "freshwater gulls" but that's not the correct name for them. As far as I know, they build their nests on the ground near bodies of water. Your license plates say you have 10,000 lakes so that should give them plenty of breeding space.

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john in la

11-12-2005 11:58:22

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Bill(Wis), 11-12-2005 11:24:27

That is just a common american gull (Ring-billed Gull) found all over the USA.
It is even the Utah state bird.

Did not know this before but your question got my curiosity so I did a search.

Utah state bird

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Bill(Wis)

11-12-2005 14:54:13

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to john in la, 11-12-2005 11:58:22

Thanks John.

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Paul E

11-12-2005 10:49:36

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

Well their definitly up here in Canada too, soon as the plow drops or even when I discbine hay field. There sometimes seems like hundreds of them after plowing for long periods.

As mentinoed before, maybe they eating corn borers and adding some bird fertilizer hehe.

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old sailor

11-12-2005 06:59:58

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

What ever you do _don't_ wear a round white hat and navy blue clothes. That makes you a bombing range as I know from experence.
John

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jimont

11-12-2005 05:33:34

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

Only drawback to plowing with those #^%&*@** birds is gettin' "bombed" by them !

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Jon Hagen

11-13-2005 07:22:18

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to jimont, 11-12-2005 05:33:34

One of my early lessons that stuck after the first experience,was to never look up at the gulls with your mouth open.

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KIP in MX

11-12-2005 10:09:55

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to jimont, 11-12-2005 05:33:34

I always thought of them as white crows.

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Coloken

11-12-2005 05:20:02

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

Was told once from salt lake...I dooknow...

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Allan in NE

11-12-2005 04:51:20

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 04:43:19

Dave,

Can you tell me where those jokers come from?

You never see a one, til you drop the plow in the ground and then they always just come outta nowhere. Every blessed time!

Thanks fer the picture! That is Great!

Allan

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Bob/Ont

11-12-2005 19:27:02

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Allan in NE, 11-12-2005 04:51:20

They likely smell the fresh turned soil, around here they show up before you finish the first strike out.
Later Bob

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Mn Dave

11-12-2005 05:04:38

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Allan in NE, 11-12-2005 04:51:20

Allan, I have wondered the same thing for over 45 years of plowing. They must have a built in homing device zeroed in on freshly plowed ground. First a few show up and then hundreds show up, and sometimes you can reach out and pert near touch one, but the minute you stop, they are gone. They sure make for some entertainment while turning the soil over.

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

11-12-2005 13:10:43

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 05:04:38

The guy who takes hay off our property has his equipment set up so that the tractor tires run over the windrows. Those gulls soon develop a taste for squashed mice. One day last summer some of them were so full they just sat on the bales until it was time to waddle over for another mouse.

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Steve Crum

11-12-2005 17:41:19

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, , 11-12-2005 13:10:43

Had an Australian Shepard and a Doperman that did that. The dogs followed the wagon pickin' the harvest until almost sick, then they'd waddle over and snooze in a hedgerow. By the next morning the dogs stunk so bad they didn't come in the house.

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Joel Harman

11-12-2005 06:45:06

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 05:04:38

think about what fresh plowed ground smells like.

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Allan in NE

11-12-2005 05:08:15

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Mn Dave, 11-12-2005 05:04:38

Hmmm,

I was told one time that they follow the plows up from the Texas coast in the spring.

Dunno 'bout that; they must make a return trip in the fall too. :>)

Allan

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steveormary

11-12-2005 12:32:30

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Re: Plowin' with the birds photo in reply to Allan in NE, 11-12-2005 05:08:15

We just called em land gulls.

steveormary

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