Birds tucking into jowar (sorghum) right off the stalks

It is feast time for the grain feeding birds now that the sorghum is ready for harvesting. The fields are vigilantly guarded by the farmers, mostly by patrolling the fields and intermittently giving out loud shouts or banging loudly on metal plates, generally frightening off birds by sound. To make things easy on themselves and their throats, some folks have come up with an ingenious way of recording a few loud screams and shouts and playing them in loop over loudspeakers, which is what is heard in the background in these video clips. Despite all this, the birds do find patches of fields here and there where it is quiet and there are no humans around. This particular patch where I recorded these birds didn't seem well tended.
In this video, a male rose finch feasts while a female is making sure the coast is clear before diving into the field. Before this I had only heard from folks that peafowl raid grain fields (groundnuts are their favorite I was told). I got to see it for myself though it was just a lone peacock. Then of course there's the plum-headed parakeet which is notoriously determined to have its share of the good stuff. The chestnut-shouldered petronia is also a known grain-thief