Birds hoover up spilt grain

Despite the fact that August has been quite wet most of the winter cereals around here have been harvested. It’s barley mainly, with a bit of wheat, writes Dick Warner
Birds hoover up spilt grain

The big green machines move in, sometimes working late into the night, and in a remarkably short space of time all that’s left is an irregular scatter of large round bales of straw on the stubble.

The machines are very efficient but they don’t harvest absolutely everything. Some ears that have been flattened by the weather are not gathered in and some of the grain gets spilt. So, when the machines move out, a lot of wildlife moves in to clean up the leftovers.

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