Al Hansen
Well-known member
The bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the morn, that the Federal employee was doing his job and that was hazing the sandhill cranes off the farmers' fields.
Good grief, things were quiet, actually quite peaceful when all of a sudden I could hear the shotgun blasts, then the whistling rockets. Today, because the wind was just right, I even heard him blasting his horn on the truck to get the cranes off of a field. What is so funny is that the cranes lift off and fly a mile to another field. The guy then jumps back in his truck and heads to where the cranes landed and he starts all over again. If you have ever seen them doing this it really starts to get funny when the cranes end up back at the same field that it all began at. Seems like one of those continuous circles that never ends. Kind of like Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First".
Sometimes the flocks will come back to the Rio and sit on an island for a while.
I noticed that one of my tires was getting low while I was working in the bosque. So when I got home I decided to fix the tire right after lunch.
Do you know how difficult it is to do this job when you have literally tens of thousands of light geese flying over the house on their way back to Bosque del Apache? It seemed to take me forever to fix that flat!
Al
Good grief, things were quiet, actually quite peaceful when all of a sudden I could hear the shotgun blasts, then the whistling rockets. Today, because the wind was just right, I even heard him blasting his horn on the truck to get the cranes off of a field. What is so funny is that the cranes lift off and fly a mile to another field. The guy then jumps back in his truck and heads to where the cranes landed and he starts all over again. If you have ever seen them doing this it really starts to get funny when the cranes end up back at the same field that it all began at. Seems like one of those continuous circles that never ends. Kind of like Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First".
Sometimes the flocks will come back to the Rio and sit on an island for a while.
I noticed that one of my tires was getting low while I was working in the bosque. So when I got home I decided to fix the tire right after lunch.
Do you know how difficult it is to do this job when you have literally tens of thousands of light geese flying over the house on their way back to Bosque del Apache? It seemed to take me forever to fix that flat!
Al
