Re: [Maine-birds] Re: Bobolinks

Amen Sister Bob-O-Link

On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 8:32:01 PM UTC-4, Julia Hanauer wrote:

I believe bobolinks nest away from edges and need fields of certain sizes. Because we have bobolinks around our house, I have done a lot of reading. Unfortunately I haven't been able to convince the farmers to wait, and we don't own the fields.

 Here's a question I have: didn't farmers hay later historically?

I like the idea of leaving some land fallow and alternating which get hayed and/or compensating farmers for not haying in June.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether bobolinks are native here. They're here now and their numbers everywhere have plummeted.  I think we need to do what we can before it's too late. I don't really want to experience spring without a bobolink chorus.

Julia

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Sarah Caputo <catbi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I wonder if anyone has looked at WHERE bobolinks nest in fields - I see mto see them singing on the edges - if they nest more to the edges, I still wonder if leaving field edges unmowed would help. 
   Also, does anyone know what the historic range of Bobolinks is?  Were they always native here in salt marshes and fens or did they move east with the growth of farmland? 

Sarah

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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 22:22:56 +0000
From: maine...@googlegroups.com
To: kd7...@gmail.com; maine...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Re: Bobolinks

To the best of my knowledge, Seth, the mowers cannot be adjusted that high - they are designed to cut right at ground level.  I think that birds would still be likely to fly up into the mower.  I like the idea of persuading folks with large grassy areas kept for reasons other than hay to consider incorporating areas of meadow into their landscaping.

 

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From: Seth Davis <kd7...@gmail.com>
To: Maine birds <maine...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 4:23 PM
Subject: [Maine-birds] Re: Bobolinks

So I am in no way an expert or for that matter even knowledgeable on the practices of hay farming, so I ask this question humbly.  I presume Bobolinks nest physically on the ground, is it at all possible to raise the mowers a foot or two higher so to potentially pass over the nest and do less harm? I think even then there would be a risk of running over the nests and additionally one would not get as much of the hay as needed but it's a thought I had. 

On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 6:58:07 PM UTC-4, Geoffrey Ives wrote:

As usual we have multiple nesting pairs of bobolinks however, I'm pretty sure the counts are low. Last year they were higher - I counted up to 12 males at one time. This year the most I've seen at once are 4. Worried.

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