2011 New York Trip-Day 6 – 07/25/2011

2011 New York Trip-Day 6 – 07/25/2011

I am still amazed at the scope of the farming being done.  I passed a field that was almost three miles wide.  I am seeing more and more corn now – at last, a crop I recognize.  I was tooling along doing about 60 when a duck and 8 ducklings came waddling across the road.  There was no place to swerve and all I could do was try to slow down.  I braced myself for the impact of little ducklings – but nothing came.  I looked in the mirror and the mother and 6 of the ducklings were on the side right side of the road.  The other 2 had stopped about a foot before my lane – they then turned around and returned to the side.  About a half hour later, a group some kind of birds did the same thing.  This time I saw them in time to honk while I braked.  I was sure I was going to get one in the windshield – but again, they all avoided the car.