plenty of irony to go around

i discovered seed heads on the winter wheat at iu last week and, surprisingly enough, i found a few spare moments today so i went and put up some bird tape ( top photo ) to deter the starlings form feasting on my wheat...it worked well last year...there was also far less wheat there last year so we'll see...i did some selective watering while i was there and i ironically flushed a bird that was sheltering there out of my intermediate wheat grass...so...we'll see if the bird tape deters sheltering as well as feasting...or if it does either...i will try to get a photo of our denizen sometime soon...the secon two photos are of potato plants..the first one up is growing larger and one other has put out three seperate leaves which, i suppose, means three seperate stalks...curious about tuber production later this summer...the fourth photo is of a seed head which is what triggered this flurry of activity and the last phot0 is the "before"photo for the bird tape application...the kerusalem artichokes and chinese yams and asparagus are all fine...the next bit of construction will be the secon half of the trellis for the yam vines...they will have topped the first post soon...more stake pounding later this week.