[AT] Combine Attack

[Brian VanDragt]

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:
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>     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.
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>                 Gene
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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.
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> Ralph in Sask.
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