Vanity

Oh, what a handsome bird I am - oh, yes, a fine figure of a bird! 

This wild turkey has taken to admiring himself in the chrome on a neighbor's pickup.  It's so comical to watch him.  I believe he thinks it's another turkey and he has to show off.  It was funny, too, that the other turkeys he was with weren't paying much attention to him. 

Talking Turkey on Thanksgiving

By now you know I love these turkeys that roam around our
neighborhood. They're way more peaceable than some people might be.
They seem to mind their own turkey business and even add some grace and beauty - if you can
see the beauty of the bird.  I've been told that if they decide to
attack you it's very nasty.  Those barbs on the back of their legs
are like nails which they would rip down your flesh. 

However this has not happened.  I see them a lot when I'm
walking Rascal, they don't seem to pay much attention to us and Rascal

pays little attention to them.  It's very nice. 

I think the worst thing they do is hold up traffic.  When they decide

to cross the street they seem oblivious to the vehicles that
might be in a hurry.  I think people should slow down anyway.  
With Thanksgiving Day tomorrow it seems like a
good time to say something nice about
these peace loving birds and I can because I love them.  Diane

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!!





Still The Mother

Walking today I ran across mother wild turkey and her family.  I know that it's them and not another flock of turkeys because they all stay very close together and she still tells them where to go.  And I counted, there are still 8 younger ones.  She still hovers over them  very protectively.  It was June when I saw the tiny little chicks and she still has them together, amazing to me.                        

Mama and Babies

This was a rare sight to me. This little wild turkey mama had at least 7 little "turklets". It was hard to count because they were bobbing along at the edge of the grass. At times like this I long for a better camera. But I love the portability of my little Canon 550. Below is another post for today and it's my first attempt at posting a video. Diane

Mama and Babies

I took this video this afternoon. I'm sorry I'm talking into the mike and that I'm not good at cutting these off. But I think it's worth it anyway. I had met a girl who lives nearby and we were both so excited about this mama wild turkey and her little "turklets". Diane

P.S. After I got this posted I was disappointed to find that it could not be enlarged so you can't really see the little ones. I'm sorry. If you watch the grass in front of her you can see them bobbing along in the grass.

A New and Exciting Creature

I took this picture of the wild turkeys in our neighborhood during the bad cold spell we just had. They were just trying to keep cold like all the other creatures and they look like.........well, wild turkeys.

But today as we walked I glanced down the alley behind our houses and there strutting around was a beautiful new creature, no two of them, no three!!

I snapped pictures from every angle but they just wouldn't get away from these garbage cans.
It was so much fun seeing them in their full array of feathers and ostentatiousness (sp?).

Diane