Snow, With Turkeys

[rolanni]

The wild turkeys were all over the back- and side-yards today, which was fine until one of them decided it would be a Good Idea to fly up onto the deck. Yowza! That's some big bird. Six foot wingspan if it was an inch. Happily, he decided that the deck didn't look all that interesting and fell -- literally -- back to the ground. I so needed an adrenal rush.
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Turkeys!

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, after a deep snowfall, I saw a wild turkey plowing through the snow. He reached a point where even he could not break through the drifts, evidently, because he stopped, turned around, and then launched himself into the air. Huge dark mass skimming a few feet above the ground. At the last moment, he flapped really hard and just managed to clear our above-ground pool.

A few feet later, he dropped to the ground where the rest of the turkeys waited. They held a short conference, then turned around and went back into the woods.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw a wild turkey, from a train somewhere in upstate New York, I said "Look, a turbo-pheasant! What was that?"

They're so cool, and so unlike domestic turkeys.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

But they're so rarely alone. Usually there's five or six of them, ranged like lookouts, and you're just waiting for the one in the middle to do something....