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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
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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.
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Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
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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.
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.
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