Guests for Dinner
Look who, or what, showed up out the back window on Saturday afternoon?
Only about half of this flock of turkeys show in this photo. This flock has been making regular “rounds” about the museum lately. I’ve seen them a few times mid-morning in a field in the 1627 English Village; once I surprised them crossing the main driveway at dusk.
Wendy got this photo; one of the neat things about seeing this flock in person is you can see the “teenagers” among the adults. This year’s chicks are about half the size of the adults and not quite completely feathered. They look gangly, all legs, and kind of awkward. Well, sort of like teenagers.
September 15th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Funny – I was sitting in my room this afternoon, typing away, listening to the most bizarre bird sounds outside and thinking to myself, “That sounds like turkeys.” And it was. I had visitors, too – in the woods behind my house, gobbling away! They don’t quite look like those orange and red things with the big fan tails that you see on all the Thanksgiving cards, do they?!!
September 16th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
We occasionally get the birds here in the inner burbs.A few years ago a tom staked out his territory and wouldn’t let any pedestrians by.The mailman refused to deliver mail to the block after he had been chased a few times.We had one come through the yard last year – none so far this year.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Speaking as a teenager (at least for the next nine months), I would like to say that there are some of us who are certainly not “all legs”.
In all seriousness, though, congrats on how far along you all have come!
Miss you.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I got curious about that classic turkey image, and found this: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Wild_Turkey.html
shows a picture of a male wild turkey “displaying”, kinda cool