[AT] Combine Attack

[Mark Johnson]

The killdeer is often not very smart about where it nests...I have had 
them nest in my gravel driveway several times. They usually don't take 
very long to hatch, though.

Mark J

On 1/10/2019 11:13 AM, Gene Dotson wrote:
>    I worked ground to seed a lawn for a friend. When He came home from 
> work, he asked me why I had left a spot un worked. Explained there was 
> a killdeer nest there. We finished when the birds hatched and left the 
> nest.
>
>                Gene
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> -----Original Message----- From: Brian VanDragt
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 11:37 AM
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Combine Attack
>
> I have had killdeer 
> (https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/killdeer) fake broken wings 
> in front of the lawn tractor while mowing before.  They nest right on 
> the ground.
> Brian
>
>
>> On January 10, 2019 at 6:45 AM Gene Dotson <gdotfly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Never have had a large animal attack my combine, but was attacked 
>> by a
>> bird. I had hired out to combine corn for a young farmer at the state 
>> game
>> farm near Urbana, Ohio with my 4 row White combine. As I was going 
>> down the
>> rows, a rooster pheasant suddenly started attacking the snout of the 
>> header.
>> Would jump on it, pecking at it, then jump down and run ahead, then 
>> turn and
>> repeat his attack. When I got to the end of the rows, on the outside 
>> rows
>> where I could not see, were 3 hen pheasants. mr rooster was guarding his
>> harem.
>>
>>                 Gene
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>> >
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>> >
>> > That is usually what happens if you hit a moose and there are 
>> getting to
>> > be a lot of them here where there never used to be. Not any danger of
>> > hitting one with a tractor but I did see a video of a bull moose > 
>> attacking
>> > a combine header in the field.
>>
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
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