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The First Vines
Wednesday, 23 May 2007

The vines were delivered yesterday at 4:30pm.  This morning we started planting the vines.  I had turned on the drippers last week and put on about 3 gallons of water at each planting place.  This turned out to be a very good idea because digging was much eaiser.  Chabelo and Simon are doing most of the planting and I was going in front of them laying out the vines and the vine potectors.  I did a vine count after 3 hours and they were averaging 41 vines per hour.  We would be done in 10 days if they can keep up that pace.

The First Vines Simon and Chebelo planting grapes Simon and Chebelo planting grapes

 

 
Killdee
Thursday, 17 May 2007

I was walking around in the vineyard where we are installing the drip lines and I saw this bird acting strangely.  The bird was a Killdee and it was pretending to be hurt so that I would be attracted to it and lure me away from it's nest.  You can see what it looked like in this picture.

  Killdee

When I took a step towards it the bird would move on a little ways and do its act all over again.  I was use to seeing other birds do the wounded bird act to lure you away from their nest so I thought I would try and find this bird's nest.  We were working right in that area so marking the nest so we didn't step on the eggs seemed to be a good idea.  The nest was right next to a drip line and we came really close to stepping on it.  There were four eggs in the nest and they blended in with the ground like they were little stones.  I set out a few markers so that we could see where the nest is and to avoid the area.  I can't wait to see the little ones hatch because they are born with their eyes open and start running around with their parents immediatlty.  Here is the picture on the eggs on the ground.

Killdee Eggs

 
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