Wild Turkey, for anyone?!

[Care4all]

So, the wild turkeys were in the yard heading for the deer corn.

The TOM was huge, huge, huge...
standing in the yard at first showing his fan of feathers all puffed out, while his ladies were feeding off the corn.

He was standing in protection of them, warning other animals to stay away!!

So I went and grabbed my camera and opened the kitchen window which made the turkeys scatter and leave...

I managed to get a couple of pictures.

And yes, we have grass now, and dandelions and clover, but Matt mowed for the first time less than a week ago and he REFUSES to mow more than once a week!! I don't blame him....and who's around to complain in the vicinity that doesn't do the same!

 

[martybegan]

Thought you were talking about the other one.

Gobble Gobble.

 

[Care4all]

Thought you were talking about the other one.

Gobble Gobble.

As was my intention!

 

[martybegan]

As was my intention!

Wild Turkey shots are our standard punishment for violating your man card. That and watching a John Wayne Movie.

Gobble Gobble.

 

[JGalt]

So, the wild turkeys were in the yard heading for the deer corn.

The TOM was huge, huge, huge...
standing in the yard at first showing his fan of feathers all puffed out, while his ladies were feeding off the corn.

He was standing in protection of them, warning other animals to stay away!!

So I went and grabbed my camera and opened the kitchen window which made the turkeys scatter and leave...

I managed to get a couple of pictures.

And yes, we have grass now, and dandelions and clover, but Matt mowed for the first time less than a week ago and he REFUSES to mow more than once a week!! I don't blame him....and who's around to complain in the vicinity that doesn't do the same!

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I have those stupid things all over my property, the dog chases them up into the trees.

They're not much good to eat, only the breast.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I have a flock near me.

I don't know how many times I have been forced to shake my fist at them and tell them to get off my lawn.

 

[Care4all]

This was our same lawn last week, where the Turkey's were....

Matt had mowed 24 hours or less earlier for the first time....and poof, the dandelions! We embrace the pretty yellow flowers at our house! The critters love them! Especially the Snowshoe Hare rabbits! Patches of grass still have not filled in....the deer paths have not grown in any yet etc, and less than a week later in the turkey pics the grass has grown really tall. All of the spread of wild plum trees are flowering a week earlier and now they have fallen or are wilted

The wild apple trees in the yard this week are now in full bloom! The whole yard smells like sweet apple, on the side with all the apple trees.....need to take pics and post them....

This is my birthday week! Every year, the most beautiful week of the year in Maine, imo!!!

Pictures of the blooming wild plum trees!

 

[White 6]

So, the wild turkeys were in the yard heading for the deer corn.

The TOM was huge, huge, huge...
standing in the yard at first showing his fan of feathers all puffed out, while his ladies were feeding off the corn.

He was standing in protection of them, warning other animals to stay away!!

So I went and grabbed my camera and opened the kitchen window which made the turkeys scatter and leave...

I managed to get a couple of pictures.

And yes, we have grass now, and dandelions and clover, but Matt mowed for the first time less than a week ago and he REFUSES to mow more than once a week!! I don't blame him....and who's around to complain in the vicinity that doesn't do the same!

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You should have taken advantage of the spring turkey season that went out on the 19th of May.

 

[Care4all]

You should have taken advantage of the spring turkey season that went out on the 19th of May.

Right now, never...they are my friends.... when shit hits the fan, it's a whole nuther story, is my guess!

 

[marvin martian]

So, the wild turkeys were in the yard heading for the deer corn.

The TOM was huge, huge, huge...
standing in the yard at first showing his fan of feathers all puffed out, while his ladies were feeding off the corn.

He was standing in protection of them, warning other animals to stay away!!

So I went and grabbed my camera and opened the kitchen window which made the turkeys scatter and leave...

I managed to get a couple of pictures.

And yes, we have grass now, and dandelions and clover, but Matt mowed for the first time less than a week ago and he REFUSES to mow more than once a week!! I don't blame him....and who's around to complain in the vicinity that doesn't do the same!

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He's not protecting the hens, it's a mating display. It's rutting season.

 

[Care4all]

He's not protecting the hens, it's a mating display. It's rutting season.

I think it may be earlier up here? We are still in hunting season up here, I think thru mid June?

 

[Woodznutz]

Thought you were talking about the other one.

Gobble Gobble.

That stuff helped to kill my brother-in-law.