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Turkey Trot
Wed Oct 04 2006

So I was sitting at the computer and looked out the window to see a turkey waltzing down the street. Hey! I thought, I'll nip out there and take a picture of him. Cool!

So I grabbed the digital camera and ran out the door. It turned out that there were 5 turkeys grazing in my neighbor's front yard. Here they are....

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So, that's pretty unique I thought, but then one of them started coming closer to me.... This was VERY strange in my experience with turkeys. They are usually wary and flighty and will run away from you. This guy came right up to me.

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I figured maybe people have been feeding them or something. He hung around looking at me and I was clicking away with the camera. Then he started getting a little too close for comfort. So I backed away a step or two. Then he positively took a dislike of me and started sashaying back and forth, dipping a wing and fluffing his tail. I waved my arm at him and made a noise which put him off for a few seconds, then he was back at it. We did that dance down the street, me waving, and him advancing until he had chased me into my back yard gate. I took this picture over my shoulder while beating a not too hasty retreat. I was afraid if I started to run he would get VERY brave.
Nasty little bugger.

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Next time I go on turkey safari, I'm taking Sunny. Sunny knows what to do with uppity turkeys.

That'll show 'em.

Hmmmpf.







12 Comments
  • From:
    Cassia (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    How cool! LOL!

  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    Wild Turkeys! What an interesting area you live in! ;)

    I know all I want to know about turkeys. I spent one summer being a turkey Bo-Peep. But these were supposed to be domestic turkeys. One afternoon I got a late start bringing them back home, and they decided it was time to roost, and roost they did. And we weren't even half-way home. There was nothing I could do to get them to move. Finally, Uncle E showed up and convinced them to go home to roost.

    The next summer I said no thanks to turkey herding.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    Yes someone is feeding them!! I think the Guy is a girl and yes if they would jump you they can really tear your hide with those spurs.
    They sure like grasshoppers and now that it is cooling down the hoppers are slow and a easy meal. Great pictures
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    That is just too funny. I had a flock of them fly into a yard where I was renting. Some landed on the roof and sounded like elephants. It was pretty cool, but I lived in the country where one would expect that sort of thing. :o)
  • From:
    Supertrooper (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    Our new house in the country gets wild turkey's visiting . Deer too I hear .

    Love your pics ..nice houses in your neighbourhood .

    Hugs
    l x
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    Wow, cool and a bit scary all at once!

    Years ago I went turkey hunting with my father. We got all set up and started using the turkey calls and pretty soon there was rustling in the underbrush and we thought we were about to get lucky. Bad thing was the rustling turned out to be wolves coming to scope out the "turkeys". Needless to say we never went turkey hunting again.
  • From:
    Diane (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Oct 04 2006
    They actually started off in our yeard! My hubby was going ut to mail a letter and they were in the front yard. They oretty much walked up three of them pretty much walke dup the street with him and one was up on your neighbor across the streets lawn. I folowed David and on the way back the two from our front lawn walked toward us. They did not seem afraid at all, though they were cautious when we started talking. They just scooting past a bit faster. They were lovely weren;t they? And 3 or 4 of them were mighty large! I am glad you were able to get your camera and shoot some pictures. Since we were already out there we missed that oppotunity. It really was an exciting site!
  • From:
    MizzM (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Oct 05 2006
    Once upon a time, back in the day, when I had a job that required me to make Field Visits, I was assigned a particularly RURAL area, which was a foreign concept to me, having grown up in the town with the largest percentage per capita of PhDs in the Country with the highest average income of any town in my state.

    I was CHASED by not only STRAY DOGS and PIGS but also CRAZED TURKEYS!!!

    It was quite surreal.

    I actually kept a box of dog biscuits in my back seat for years...

    Poultry frightens me to this day...
  • From:
    AQuietEvening (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Oct 05 2006
    Hmmmm.... Thanksgiving.....

    That turkey better watch out!
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Oct 06 2006
    Lol, that's just hilarious. What were they doing there, anyway? Hope you find out. ;-)
  • From:
    SerendipityDuck (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Oct 06 2006
    You know Thanksgiving is coming up. Maybe he was volunteering?
    I love wildlife up close too. But there are limits.

    Thanks for the comment on my diary. I am so looking forward to it.

    Huggs,
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Oct 07 2006
    I think a snickerdoodle would have been a brilliant distraction! lol

    We see wild turkeys here all the time, in one pasture you can almost set your watch by them. Er... you can set the time of day by them because they always appear at the same moments before the sunset. Very cool!