[AT] Combine Attack

[Spencer Yost]

They come to my pastures, Dean.  Every afternoon in the summer and fall about 20-40 descend and sound like I’m at the ocean(they are related to pipers and sound like them).   They are  raucous.  They leave shortly after dark and don’t seem to nest in my pastures.  I keep a sharp eye out when mowing but never see nests or the broken wing trick.

Spencer Yost

> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:40 PM, <deanvp at att.net> <deanvp at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Every spring I get to watch my family of Killdeer when mowing the lawn.
> They build their nest in one of the small rock/gravel covered drainage
> ditches I have in the front lawn. They do such a good job of using the
> proper masking colors that I never know where the nest is until  they start
> protecting the nest with the broken wing routine.  When this pair built
> their first nest they were almost apoplectic about protecting the nest and
> would put on quite a show.  However, over the years I have noticed they are
> not so concerned but just want to make sure I stay away far enough.  I don't
> drive over the ditches even though I could if I wanted to so the nest is
> never in danger from me or the mower and it takes me a long time to even
> find the nest. Either this is the same pair of parents or some in the same
> family because they seem to know I'm not going to hurt them they just seem
> to want to make their territory. I see the hatch and then the young ones
> growing up a bit and then all of a sudden the whole family disappears for
> the year. I have no idea where they go.   After 20 years of owning our
> place, this spring ritual has become part of recognizing the renewal of life
> each spring. I don't know the life span of a Killdeer so I don't know how
> many years I've been dealing with the same parents or if I am dealing with
> multiple generations. But.... I look forward to the whole show each year.
> Takes some of the boredom out of mowing. 
> 
> 
> 
> Dean VP
> Apache junction, AZ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Gene Dotson
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 10:14 AM
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Combine Attack
> 
>    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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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