Out of the road, turkeys!

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We see turkeys around the mountain fairly often. A few days ago Sam flushed a flock in our back yard, and then a few days later the four of us (Zeke, Lucy, Sam and me)  flushed a big one in the same place. Turkeys don’t like to fly, but this one took off like a loaded tanker and sailed away just above the trees.

Monday afternoon, after a visit to the grocery store and a couple of building supply stores, I saw this as I drove by the front of our new lot. (For some reason, it’s not showing the first frame of the video, so you have to click the link to see it).

Turkeys by the road

I counted seven turkeys. I hope they survive turkey season. Here in Georgia it runs from around late March to mid-May.

4 thoughts on “Out of the road, turkeys!”

  2. For some reason, the turkeys that haunt my preserve disappear during the winter despite the fact that there’s plenty of birdseed around for them to eat. It used to be that a woman down the road put out a trough (literally) of corn for the deer, and that (understandably) attracted the turkeys to her yard, too. But that woman (and her trough) have since moved, so I don’t know what gets into “my” turkeys’ heads. They completely disappeared just before Christmas (we couldn’t even add them to the Audubon Christmas Count). Then after our 20″ snowstorm on January 23, two skittish males reappeared for a day, not to be seen again since. Go figure…

  3. There is a hundred-acre farm field north of my property, and our road runs along part of it. When we drive in, and turkeys are in that field gleaning whatever fallen grain they can find, they will run ahead of the truck, safe on the other side of the fence but certainly unaware of that. Then at the last moment, they will dash across our road for the safety of the forest.

  4. Robin — We certainly have a turkey season here. I have seen turkey hunters and hear the shotguns in the distance. I imagine that a fair number of the hunters are actually hunting illegally.

    Scott — I wonder where they get to. They don’t migrate, do they?

    Pablo — I don’t think they are the most intelligent bird of all.

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