No, not ME, silly. Mom spotted this male turkey in our back yard the other day. He was strutting and displaying for a long time. When she showed Dad, he said there must be a female nearby, and so they peered around, and saw the gal shown here:
Definitely the hormones are surging for those male turkeys these days. We also later saw a whole group of about 10 in another part of our town, and the males all were displaying their tail feathers in the same way, which is quite unusual. (we are kind of over-run with turkeys for some reason!)
Goodluck, fella. I hope she chooses you.
Good luck from me too--else we might see you on our table this fall...
ReplyDeleteThat's some big live fev-vers!
ReplyDeleteWow! You have really big birdies in your neck of the woods!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, lunch!
ReplyDeleteI hope the turkey has good luck, too. I think I might just freak out if I saw a bird that big in my yard. I have given you an award.
ReplyDeleteHerman
*drool snort*
ReplyDeleteAwwwwww ... good luck.
ReplyDeleteThat is very cool! That Tom turkey is ginormous! We would be pretty scared of a bird that big.
ReplyDeleteSweet Tom! I'll bet he is tasty!!
ReplyDeleteRosie & Henry
Oh, oh, oh!!!!!!!!! We LOVE turkey!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHa, ha. I didn't realize that in my previous post I was eating turkey!!!!
ReplyDeleteHaHA! Very funny, Simba!
ReplyDeleteOMC!! That turkey was in your yard??!? We would love to have one of those in our yard!
ReplyDeleteYeah, mum says she has seen lots of turkeys this spring too. Plus our neighbor reported on in her yard.
ReplyDeleteNo mum does not drive racy cars, says she doesn't have enough green papers. She does a lot of directing traffic and checking safety gear.
Them Turkeys must be hiding from the Fancy Feast peoples.
ReplyDeleteOMG
ReplyDeleteI wish it was in our yard :))))))
So beautiful !!
I love how the female turkey is (or is pretending to be) totally playing it cool, like she doesn't notice!
ReplyDeleteAudrey, you are so right - the female turkey had her back to the Tom!
ReplyDeleteDo you think that big guy could spare a few fevvers for us to play with? They would be wild and tasty, we are sure!
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh. i am drooling like a woofie over that bird. that is more turkey than i could eat in an hour! i really like turky...
ReplyDeletei saw you over at Herman's and wanted to say hello!
PS great idea about recycling catfood cans. mommy is going to start that from now on. you're right, that is one thing we usually don't do. a little effort on our parts will make a big effort in the future of trash!
So THAT's what turkeys look like?! I've never seen a live one. I wish we had some wandering around here - that would make a REALLY great episode of bird TV!
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