http://djringer.com/birding/2007/03/27/where-there-is-prairie/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:48:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://djringer.com/birding/2007/03/27/where-there-is-prairie/#comment-3505 Search and Serendipity: A Birder’s Blog » A Birder’s Year: January-April Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:03:26 +0000 http://djringer.com/birding/?p=256#comment-3505 [...] in March, on the Flint Hills prairies in eastern Kansas, I saw Vesper Sparrows, Loggerhead Shrikes, and Red-tailed [...] [...] in March, on the Flint Hills prairies in eastern Kansas, I saw Vesper Sparrows, Loggerhead Shrikes, and Red-tailed [...]

]]> http://djringer.com/birding/2007/03/27/where-there-is-prairie/#comment-1884 TANK Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:05:47 +0000 http://djringer.com/birding/?p=256#comment-1884 Ahh, the prairies. Now you're speaking my language. I remember driving through Kansas on the way to some high school conference and seeing the real prairie fields. Here in Cooke County, we have a couple fields left, and I know where every one of them is located because I've cut the prairie hay off of all of 'em. Well, I might have missed one. But my point is...I dunno. But real prairie can never have been plowed or planted. The biggest field we have that I know of is 700 acres. Then there are smaller ones of 250 and 300 acres. I don't know my birds well enough, but they used to keep me company when I'd be cutting those prairies. The hawks would dive down on the mice and rats that were trying to escape the swather, and the...smaller birds...would dart all around catching the grasshoppers. I miss those days. Ahh, the prairies. Now you’re speaking my language. I remember driving through Kansas on the way to some high school conference and seeing the real prairie fields. Here in Cooke County, we have a couple fields left, and I know where every one of them is located because I’ve cut the prairie hay off of all of ‘em. Well, I might have missed one. But my point is…I dunno. But real prairie can never have been plowed or planted. The biggest field we have that I know of is 700 acres. Then there are smaller ones of 250 and 300 acres. I don’t know my birds well enough, but they used to keep me company when I’d be cutting those prairies. The hawks would dive down on the mice and rats that were trying to escape the swather, and the…smaller birds…would dart all around catching the grasshoppers. I miss those days.

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