Farmer Delays Harvesting Crops to Save Baby Blackbirds, Earning Flock of Praise

NBC Bay Area ^ | 5/21

[nickcarraway]

A central California farmer is holding off on harvesting his fields until thousands of imperiled tricolored baby blackbirds can fly from their nests.

The Fresno Bee reports Thursday that Frank Mendonsa, owner of a dairy farm south of Tulare, California, was recognized Wednesday by Audubon California and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.

About 15,000 tricolored blackbirds are temporarily nesting in fields of triticale silage that Mendonsa is growing for cow feed, the newspaper reported.

[nickcarraway]

[ConorMacNessa]

How gentle of him! Would he have the same solicitude for preborn humans delaying his harvest? There are uncounted billions of Red-winged Blackbirds, and, much as I love them as creations of our Almighty Lord, how do they stand against the life of one human babe cut short?

[stormer]

These are actually Tri-colored blackbirds and not Red-winged blackbirds. But thanks for trying to hijack a thread about birds and make it into one about abortion.

[winner3000]

(The government is paying Mendonsa to voluntarily delay harvesting under a conservation program.)

So they are recognizing him for accepting a bribe from taxpayers to delay harvesting! Is that noble or what!?!!

I am so touched, I feel tears forming in my eyes for this selfless act! NOT!

[Daffynition]

[Gefn]

What. Wonderful story.

Thanks for posting.

[ConorMacNessa]

And thank you, FRiend - you apparently are more concerned about an obscure avian species than about the wholesale butchery of human babies.

Why are you here? Do you count yourself a Conservative?

If the Tri-colored blackbirds join the majority of species ever extant on earth who are extinct, how are we injured?

If the pre-born babies, who are human from conception and who are cut off before they have a chance to draw a breath, are killed for the convenience of their mothers, what is affirmed other than the desire of the mother, who should bear then, to be free of any responsibility for them?

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[Flick Lives]

who put the blackbirds in the quattro triticale?

[Red_Devil 232]

Black bird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly.
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Black bird singing in the dead of night, take these sunken eyes and learn to see.
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Black bird fly.

[1rudeboy]

Pre-born humans nest in dairy farms?

[piasa]

Is there some reason you think the farmer is pro-abortion?

[Anoreth]

If you thought that abortion and blackbird chicks were unrelated then you aren’t a real conservative sorry.
turn in your badge.

[DaveA37]

Somehow I believe there is more to this story than has been told.

[coop71]

If you want to get technical, he’d have to delay harvest for nests with eggs, not chicks, if you really wanted stretch this out and make it about abortion. Otherwise, your abortion comparison doesn’t hold much water.

It appears, from your concerned post, one isn’t allowed to care/save what’s before him unless it’s an unborn human. If we all held that philosophy, the world is in deeper trouble than I imagined.

[Balding_Eagle]

Boy, you really sound like a bitter old lady.

[1rudeboy]

I saved an earthworm from certain doom a few days ago. Haven’t done anything for the pro-life movement. If you want my badge, come get it. Bring a weapon so I can add it to my collection.