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    Thanks! We saw a bald eagle flying over the river this past weekend. It was cool to see! We had seen one last Spring roosting over the river.

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      I will use the drone a lot for habitat before and after pictures and will use it to help find dead deer. I think the drone will be a great tool for us. We usually use Google Earth but they haven’t updated our area since 2016 and we’ve done a lot of habitat work since then so our place looks totally different.

      I purchased the Hubsan Zino Pro. This is my 1st drone and I didn’t want to spend more than $400. It has a 3-axis gimbal and 4K so the video is very smooth and crisp. I want the JDI mavic or the FIMI models but those are around $1,000. I will say that I’m very impressed with the Zino Pro so far.

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        2/27/20 Continued

        Here are some more pictures from the past weekend.

        We tried to burn some piles after receiving 1.3in the week prior but as you can see the fire spread pretty quickly. Lots of raking and shoveling to get it settled down.
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        The food plots are coming up slowly. I am seeing wheat, silver river clover and burr clovers starting to come up.
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          Originally posted by bgleaton View Post
          I will use the drone a lot for habitat before and after pictures and will use it to help find dead deer. I think the drone will be a great tool for us. We usually use Google Earth but they haven’t updated our area since 2016 and we’ve done a lot of habitat work since then so our place looks totally different.

          I purchased the Hubsan Zino Pro. This is my 1st drone and I didn’t want to spend more than $400. It has a 3-axis gimbal and 4K so the video is very smooth and crisp. I want the JDI mavic or the FIMI models but those are around $1,000. I will say that I’m very impressed with the Zino Pro so far.
          Keep us updated on the drone, if you only spent that amount I may be interested in one as well.

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            Also, if you have a leaf blower it can help slow the fire movement and even put it out. We use them all the time

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              Thanks for the tip on the leaf blower!

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                Originally posted by bgleaton View Post
                Thanks for the tip on the leaf blower!
                If there isn’t a lot of wind it’ll easily put out the fire, or if it is a backfire(creeping into the wind). Obviously be careful with a head fire. They also work great when a fire is creeping through leaves.

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                  3/4/2020 Update

                  We have received 1.6-inches of rain today so far, hoping we get another 1/4-inch by the end of the day. It looks like we have some more rain chances in the 10 day forecast. A good start to Spring!

                  The bulldozer will be out there on Thursday to start making all of the clearings. We are going to try to broadcast some native seed blends from Turned Seed in the newly cleared areas. We told the guy who is making the clearings to not clear cut anything and to take the approach of remove 10-15 cedars and leave 1. Our goal is to help promote better brush/browse, native grasses, and forbs to increase the amount of forage on our property.

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                    3/4/2020 Update

                    We ended up getting 2.1-inches today. The ponds finally got some decent runoff. The little pond needs more water but we'll take what we can get.

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                      That’s awesome!! I think we had around 1.4” for the day, I’ll take every drop!

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                        Clearing Pictures-3-9-2020

                        The dozer guy is out there and widening our shooting lanes, making small roads from small pond to feeders, and will be working on the larger clearings later this week. We a blackbuck doe eaten up in our 3-acre wheat field - eagles were picking it clean.

                        We are making these long clearings around 20-yards wide and will be planting them with Turner Seed's Native Perennial Grass/Forb mix. We are hoping these long meandering clearings and the 4 acre clearing will provide an additional 3,000lbs of native forage/acre (according to the Web Soil survey).

                        The wheat fields are starting to pop after the recent rain. You can see the white headed eagle/hawk on the ground and one flying in the air. Any ideas on what the two birds are with the white heads?
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                        Sorry for the poor pictures, they were taken with an old phone.

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                          Looking good!, bird with white head is a cara cara or Mexican eagle.

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                            Caracara’s.

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                              Thanks for the input on the Mexican eagle.

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                                Ranch Clearing Pics

                                Here are some pictures of some more clearings. I'm hoping to have some good drone pictures and videos later this month.
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                                The wheat, silver river clover, and burr clover are starting to pop with the recent rainfall.

                                For the 5-acre section we had the guy leave some small cedar mottes along withe the oaks and mesquites so that it's more like a staging area and not a clear and open field. We have a lot of burning to do!

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