dent corn | Life on a Colorado Farm

I got a several photos of the cranes! They are so very hard to sneak up on…I had to walk very, very carefully….taking only a few steps at a time and then waiting and waiting and waiting…no dogs, cats, children or husband along. Just me and my camera.

It is a fact they are Sandhill Cranes…very lovely birds.

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In the hundreds that are wintering here, I see no Canada Geese with them. Usually we have hundreds of geese and no Sandhill Cranes.

They enjoy the corn and they like to be with the cows. The corn they seem to like the best is the hard-dent corn (corn you feed to animals and make corn bread from), the sweet corn fields they seem to shun.

The only other fields they like are the winter wheat fields, everything else is scorned.

Well, anyway, I made it! Now we all know…

Sandhill Cranes!

Linda

Summer is fast coming to a close. It doesn’t seem possible that this is the last full week of August. School started here for everyone. The big busses passed our house early this morning (there are two). This afternoon my little grandchildren will get off the bus and walk down our lane until volleyball season ends. Misty is one of the volleyball coaches at the middle school so the two oldest grandchildren will ride the bus to our house. The littlest kid will already be here. 🙂

The pinto beans are starting to turn yellow and the bean pods have striped up, Terry should be pulling them in about two weeks if the weather stays warm.

The hay is getting close to the third cutting which should also hit in about two weeks (crops have thier own schedule…they don’t take yours into consideration 😉 )

And the corn has moved from the blister stage (where it is soft…if you stick your finger nail in one of the kernals it will pop) into hardening up. We raise hard-dent corn…. this is the corn you cook with to make corn bread or it is ground up and put into animal feed. Only about two maybe three more irrigations for the corn.

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We will still have to irrigate the hay to make sure it has a good healthy start into the winter, but our work is rapidly winding down.

The last week has brought moisture into our area…I only saw one rainbow, but it was wonderful….hitting the pinto bean field just about the time I was out picking corn! It was raining closer to the south side of Delta … we didn’t get wet. They got the rain, but I got to see the rainbow!