Shotguneddy Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Maize has started to be cut round my perms Oxford, one big field always draws thousands when usually cut every year. But this year it's been cut now for 5 days and nothing on it so far, nothings started on new rape shoots just can't seem to find the smallest gangs even, is it down to early harvest and warm days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 None of the maize up here even has heads on it yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 bit away from cutting on my farms, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 We've got lots of maize in as game cover on our shoot and it's well behind, however it probably wasn't sown terribly early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Maize has started to be cut round my perms Oxford, one big field always draws thousands when usually cut every year. But this year it's been cut now for 5 days and nothing on it so far, nothings started on new rape shoots just can't seem to find the smallest gangs even, is it down to early harvest and warm days I don't find it the least bit strange that the field is being ignored at the moment. I find pigeons can take weeks to take advantage of a new food source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 If there are not many spilt grains there will be little food to attract either corvids or pigeons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 If there are not many spilt grains there will be little food to attract either corvids or pigeons. Your comment got me thinking about what is happening when the crop is cut and the process for attracting birds. When you say split grains are these from the harvest of from the ripening process? I think here most of the maize is going whole crop and when its cut the initial interest seems to be for all the disturbed ground and bugs only later is it for the remains of the corn itself. Does the corn split later when its left on the ground? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Your comment got me thinking about what is happening when the crop is cut and the process for attracting birds. When you say split grains are these from the harvest of from the ripening process? I think here most of the maize is going whole crop and when its cut the initial interest seems to be for all the disturbed ground and bugs only later is it for the remains of the corn itself. Does the corn split later when its left on the ground? Grains will be produced when the cutting machine goes through a cob. Cobs will break off the plant stem during the harvesting process. Crows and rooks will take part or even whole cobs away from the field. Pigeons cannot do that and scavenge and pick at what cobs or grains are on the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 From my experience, maize can be attractive well after harvesting and ploughing. My best day came from a field that had been harvested in the autumn and ploughed in late winter. I shot it in April. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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