For nearly 22 years I was paid....modestly...but paid....to write editorial content on agriculture. I scanned news from all over the world for trends, items of interest, differing viewpoints, and everything I could find on agriculture.
At first when I started this blog, I delved into the same realm, but as time went by I saved most...not all, but most...of the politics side of things for the paper, and the stories of home and wild nature for here.
However, with that outlet for opinion and news gone now, I am afraid interspersed with birds, dogs, cows, and grand babies, you may find more of that other stuff here now...like the story on solar yesterday.
Same deal on Facebook...I apologize..... I am a terribly opinionated animal.
Nuff said.
Meanwhile, this is interesting in light of this. The latter story is an old one, but probably still matters. I suspect that the harassment intended to disperse the crows may be doing them a favor in light of the disease. Tens of thousands in close proximity seems likely to increase the sharing of sickness.
It won't be long until the crows spread out on their own anyhow, as nesting time will soon be here. They can be downright staggering on winter roosts though. Used to be a big one over by the old county courthouse in Fonda and holy cow! Noisy, messy, and incredibly numerous.
BTW, I get a lot of my personal weather information from crow-go-out and crow-go-home time here at the farm. They head west every morning, probably from that big roost in Amsterdam, and back east every evening or late afternoon. Departure times and height of flight are highly variable depending on atmospheric pressure and precipitation, or so I assume.
Anyhow, brace yourselves......I am no longer saving things for the Farm Side
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