Hi defed,
You will see something similar to what I do - I have solar panels and wind and they are on separate controllers.
On a normal day with no wind, in the morning the sun hits my panels for the first time. The charge controller measures battery voltage and sees some drain-off of energy overnight has taken them down to 25V or so. The controller allows full current to flow from the panels. As the morning progresses, the current rises as the sun lines up on the panels, so it goes rapidly from 0A to 4-5A in an hour, then creeps up to 7A or more by noon. Depending on the state of charge of the battery, the controller will find that this much current raises the battery voltage upwards of 27 volts or more. Once it reaches 27.4 or so, the charge controller has to start doing its job, pulsing the current on/off so that the voltage doesn't rise any higher. Once it starts doing this the full-sun power on the panels will be "regulated" down. The average current will get lower and lower. For the rest of the day the fully-charged batteries will stay at 27.2V and need less and less current to stay at "float". By about 6PM when I get home from work, there's usually only about 1A going through. That's partly from the controller regulating the current and due to the low angle of the sun. In total about 20-25 Amp-hours are required a day for this, so it's a cumulative sum of the peak current in the morning, then low current for the rest of the day (less than 10 hours long now).
Batteries really like to have a sustained float charge on them all the time. Basically that's the reason I got my solar panels - too many days with no wind when I would start fretting about the weak batteries. Yours would be happy if you left the panels to charge them every day, too.