Blackbird: Disked thick vegetation on 5-19-11Blackbird: Flushed after broadcasting rice on 5-27-11.Blackbird: Chiwapa millet on 9-27-11. Not quite ready yet. Started heading 49 days after planting. Chiwapa 10-10-11Sunflowers planted in early May.Sunflowers heading in late June.A May 1-10 planting date typically results in full bloom around July 4. These are hybrids.16: 2nd year stand of barnyardgrass in May. This headed out and died by June and was followed by a thick stand of invasive coffeeweed (sesbania) in late July.16: Mowed the sesbania in mid-August before it podded out to release the desirable smartweed underneath. Here is an excellent stand of ladysthumb or nodding smartweed on 9-27-11.AJ: Rice broadcast and covered on 5-27-11. Flushed shortly after to enhance germination. AJ: Maturing rice and wild game food sorghum on 9-27-11.AJ: RiceA pond of smartweed dying from lack of water on 6-9-11.A pond of smartweed lush and growing on 6-9-11.Sawbill: Sprayed with glyphosate and 2,4-D to control patches of bermuda and sesbania. 6-9-11Sawbill: Mixed stand of chiwapa and Jap millet with smartweeds, wild millets and other grasses and sedges. 9-27-11. 2,4-D was sprayed twice throughout the summer to control thick stands of sesbania which would have otherwise shaded out desirable vegetation. Wardog: Disking in mid May to control willows and promote desirable grass growth.Wardog: Flooding after planting WGF sorghum due to lack of moisture. 6-9-11.Wardog: 9-27-11 Stand of WGF sorghum that has matured and been overtaken by smartweeds, sedges, wild millets, crabgrass, panic grass and other good duck foods. Herbicide was not sprayed on the sorghum so that the natural vegetation would grow.Chiwapa millet head on 9-27-11. Planted 7-12-11. Not quite ready. Pennsylvania smartweed, another desirable annual, in background.Smartweed: Ladysthumb variety with pink flowers. Desirable annual smartweed. Smartweed seeds, with their hard seed coat, last a very long time in water. After 90 days submerged, only 21 percent of the seeds have deteriorated. Laredo soybeans: Planted mid-May. 6-29-11Laredo beans. 10-10-11Paloma: WGF sorghum planted in mid May open hole in willows. 6-18-11Paloma: 6-29-11Crimson/arrowleaf clover plot oringinally planted in November of 2010. Reseeded and sprouted in early September 2011.Closeup of crimson clover on 10-10-11.Culti-packing Durana clover plot aftter broadcasting seed on 9-27-11.2 weeks later after 2" of rain shortly after planting. Wheat and durana clover.Closeup of durana clover on 10-10-11Durana taking over on 10-23. One month after planting.
Habitat Management 2011
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Habitat Management 2010
Rice planted by air on 6-1-10. this photo 6-13Rice, barnyardgrass, sprangletop and sesbania.Wardog: After being drained for first time on 5-25-10Wardog: 6-27-10Wardog: 7-09-10 Extremely dry conditions made it absolutely necessary to flood this pond to keep the natural duck food alive and growing.Wardog: Sorghum sudangrass planted for cover around this moist-soil pond. Wardog: 11-24-10. Lanes disked in smartweed to allow birds to land in open patches of water. Sorghum sudangrass standing next to disked natural vegetation.Sawbill: Chiwapa millet on 6-13-10Sawbill: Chiwapa milletSawbill: Chiwapa shallowly flooded in drought conditions. 6-27-10Sloppy: Rice emerging after been flown in by air on 6-1-10. This photo on 6-12Sloppy: Rice 12 days after planting. Sloppy: 27-day old riceSloppy: Rice 57 days old. Sloppy: Chiwapa and Jap millet planted beside rice and flooded. 7-27-10Sloppy: Rice booting at 83 days.Sloppy: Rice heads maturing at 100 days.16: Unharvested rice ready to be consumed.Blackbird: A buffet of natural foods in a moist soil pond. Sedges, wild millets and others. 6-18-10Blackbird: The same pond after being mowed in August and flooded in September. This is a November photo.Blackbird: Happy customers in a narrow lane amidst thick vegetation.Blackbird: Holding birds 2 weeks before season opens.
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