Sometimes weather predictions are accurate. Yesterday the weather app had an alert for serious conditions. It revealed that with low humidity and strong winds beginning at 5pm there was elevated fire danger. Perhaps there was no fire but at 5pm the wind switched from west to north, increased to over 20mph and the temperature quickly dropped 20 degrees.
More ducks! The largest flock yet of blue bills were bobbing in the whitecaps on my little pond. They are impervious to waves and were busy diving for whatever it is they dive for. In addition to the numerous blue wing teal and mallards I spotted a bufflehead today. The pie billed grebes are back, too. Still haven't seen any of the wading birds; least bitterns, great blue herons or egrets.
Returning from Brookings with 160,000, what's your guess of what it is? If you guessed kernels of corn you win the prize! Two bags, each claiming to contain 80,000 kernels (who did the counting?) boasting a maturity date of 112 days. That should be perfect for this latitude this year. Likely it will be planted mid-May, so ripe Sept. 15?, not that maturity means much to me. Because the corn is left in the field for wildlife it doesn't need to be harvest-dry at any particular date. Pheasants and deer don't care about moisture content. Ed tells me that the soil (don't call it dirt) should be least 54 degrees at two inches deep before planting. Now that the fields are plowed the black soil will warm more quickly.
Takk for alt
Al
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