TimSullivan
Silver Member
When I mow the 8 acre field in front of our new home. I get one of two escorts. One is a small hawk about the size of a large robin. May be it is a kestrel. It follows the cutter and drops on anything small that is scared out. It just fluters along behind, catches its food and flies to the woods. Then returns and starts all over again. If I start the tractor in the barn, it is waiting for me on a fence post by the time I back out. It drives my large dog crazy when we take a walk. The bird just keeps flying in a circle over us. The dog ends up turning around and around watching the bird. Finally starts to bark at it and it flies away for a while.
The other visitors are a group of swallows. I have been able to keep them out of the barn but they have nests in an old shed. If the little flies are particularly bad, the swallows show up in force and I get an air show. These birds are not afraid of me or the tractor and buss me repeatedly. I have the feeling that if I would turn the tractor quickly I could get a bird in the ear. The insects that were driving me crazy one minute are gone in a flash. I feel like I have a fighter escort all my own.
This is the first time I have owned a large property and been able to really enjoy the land and its creatures.
The other visitors are a group of swallows. I have been able to keep them out of the barn but they have nests in an old shed. If the little flies are particularly bad, the swallows show up in force and I get an air show. These birds are not afraid of me or the tractor and buss me repeatedly. I have the feeling that if I would turn the tractor quickly I could get a bird in the ear. The insects that were driving me crazy one minute are gone in a flash. I feel like I have a fighter escort all my own.
This is the first time I have owned a large property and been able to really enjoy the land and its creatures.