Mowing Season

The Door County Highway Department came thru and mowed our ditch.  A steep embankment our ditch has and I watched as the guys maneuvered to negotiate the slope.  This time nobody careened out of control into the roadside trees.  (Evidence in prior years suggested this happens with some regularity).

If I had my druthers I'd hold-off on mowing the ditch until mid to late July.  This is primary nesting season and it is heartbreaking to know that countless ground-nesting birds are being killed by the flail mowers.

They'll return once again in late summer to clean-up the ditch before autumn.

Sigh...