Thanks very much for those informative bob-o-link study reports. My hay guy and I are in communication about timing. He gets to hay the front areas, by the road, and I get to have the back yard areas protected until mid July. I'm hoping to get a bob-o-link/farmer program going in Maine for species protection next year. I learned about bob-o-links from my grandfather, a bird expert and amateur taxidermist from Winchester, MA. If you ever went into Salari's store in Fryeberg, ME you saw some of his stuffed birds (all accidental kills retrieved). We'd drive to fields in Bridgetown and Denmark, Maine to listen and watch the bobs. He died in 1984 and would be both astounded and delighted to read this bird forum.
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 12:37:44 PM UTC-4, Sarah Caputo wrote:
-- On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 12:37:44 PM UTC-4, Sarah Caputo wrote:
The number of people mowing acres of lawn is astonishing - every time I drive by I think of how much great wildlife habitat goes to waste.
Sarah
On 6/6/2016 1:54 PM, Jeff Wells wrote:
The other opportunity is to be aware of fields that are mowed mainly to keep them open rather than to get nutritious forage for farm animals. This would include some land trust preserves but also private lands in which the owner just wants to keep the land open and could mow later in the season. Airports are also places that can be encouraged to mow some of their field later since they are not mowing them to produce hay for animal food but just to keep them open.
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