RE: Crows and Corn/Brief WA update

Most likely they watched you put it there.  They wait until you leave, call
their buddies over and have a party.  Crows are smart social birds and they
are very attentive to what the people in thier environment are doing.  When
you were putting in the gardem you may not have noticed Mr. Crow sitting on
top of the utility pole or in the old maple down the road, but he noticed
you.  His kind figured out long ago that wherever the hairless apes were
there was usually food to be found too.  All they have to do is wait until
we are out of sight and pick up a free lunch.  

Back to the patch.  Over 1" of rain last night in a 5 hour period after two
days of steady drizzle and showers.  I'm glad my
cloches are still up or the plants would have been beaten to the ground.
I'd love to send some of this rain to Ohio and other points east.  We're
still waiting for summer to show up here in the Northwet.  Predicted high
temp today 62º and it's been like this all week.  Last year on June 21 it
was 82º and the cloches were off.  Male flowere have opened on the 759
Mombert 97 on June 20.  Probably been a few since but I've been putting in
some long hours on the job and haven't been to the patch since then.  I just
hope everything held up in the downpour.  I'll check this evening on the way
home.

Chris Michalec
Covington, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	BILL J. SADOWSKI [SMTP:BSADOWSKI@CompuServe.COM]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:37 PM
> To:	pumpkin growers
> Subject:	Crows and Corn
> 
> Sorry this is not a pumpkin problem but one that we have debated at work
> for two weeks now.  Maybe someone out there knows the answer.  
> 
> This is a tough one. We have been trying to find out why or how do crows
> know that you have planted corn and they come from wherever to pull out
> the
> small seedlings to eat the corn seed? How do they know that there is a
> corn
> seed in the ground? It is planted 1" deep, and still they find it. How?
> I have been trying to find an answer....help!! 
> 
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