Turkeys

[TinaJ Profile Private messageYIM]

Since the state of Maine,in its infinite wisdom, decided that turkeys needed to be reintroduced to the state and that we need a special license to hunt them, and are allowed only one, the result has been a serious overpopulation of the buggers. They will eat anything, seeds, seed shells, any plant that pokes up thru the snow. I thought today's gaggle or herd or whatever they're called, was an opportunity for a quick show. There is nothing fancy about this, I took a bunch of pics, threw them into proshow, added a few zooms and a song. Purely for my own entertainment. Oh, and if the govt. ever asks for proof of the overrun, I'll have it, lol!
About 1 1/2 minutes long, 8.55 mb
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 4878&alb=0
TinaJ

ps. This one is set up a little different, once it loads and plays the intro, you have to right click and then click play.

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

You could have just as well taken those pictures in my back yard. We've got turkey herds here in Upstate New York too, though they seem to mainly just pass through our yard, occasionally dropping giant feathers for my collection. I have a friend whose cat was out doing his daily rounds when he must have gotten a little too close to a turkey nest just inside the woods. My friend happened to be looking out the window when her cat came tearing out of the woods with a turkey hot on his tail. He made it into the house by a hair and then refused to go back outside for an entire month.

I have more turkey tales, but I'll restrain myself.

Barbara

[seektheburd Profile Private message]

Hi TinaJ,
My goodness, your yard is overrun by those buggers! You might have created this show for your own pleasure but I found it entertaining as well. Thanks for letting us take a peak at your part of the world.

Hugs,
Stephanie

PS-Barbara, your story was just too funny!

[TinaJ Profile Private messageYIM]

Barbara, I would have loved to see that!!!
TinaJ

[Rosemary Profile Private message]

Hi TinaJ,
Your turkeys seem as plentiful as our Canada Geese. They get everywhere - even stop the traffic on the freeways when they decide to cross it. Do the turkeys migrate? The geese do but their numbers are just increasing each year and they too are "protected"
I enjoyed your show.

Rosemary

[Raymond Bradley]

Tina I am no expert on anything but that has never stopped me from expressing an opinion.

And here's proof. How does one delete a posting?

Raymond

[Raymond Bradley]

Tina I am no expert on anything but that has never stopped me from expressing an opinion.

Your turkey problem may be more the fault of a neighbor/neighbors feeding them than the states reintroduction. My home state (AR) has been a supplier of wild turkeys for restocking and I have only seen one in all my travels. Your birds may be a single clutch that have adapted to urban living. When the predators learn how (probably coyotes) they will control the surplus.

I enjoyed your show.

Rosemary, bad news, not all Canada geese migrate.

Raymond

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

Raymond, you are so right about those Canada geese. Ours are year-round residents, flocking and honking and raising their young in ponds, sometimes waking me early in the morning when they do a fly-over. When I was a kid (many, many years ago), geese honked in the spring and honked out the autumn, but now they just hang around and honk all the time.

Barbara

[TinaJ Profile Private messageYIM]

Raymond, there are a lot of people who feed the wild life here! The turkeys have been known to clean out my bird feeders. But they are all over the state, on the highways, in the country, in town. We can't go anywhere and not see the stinkers!!
TinaJ

[Raymond Bradley]

Tina have patience. Disease and/or predators will eventually ease the problem. (or global warming)

Raymond

[trailertrash Profile Private message]

Are they edible? Just a thought!

[TinaJ Profile Private messageYIM]

They are if you like wild game. Nothing like a butterball!!:)
TinaJ

[iknowwhereitis123 Profile Private message]

Yikes Tina, I didn't know there was a turkey problem. We have peacocks around here. The first time they came up on my porch, I was so excited! The kids and I feed them crackers.... The peacocks called all their cousins for the free buffet and after about a week of stepping in peacock poo and them scratching my car roof, I was wondering what to feed them to make them taste good.
Feeling your pain...
Sue

[nannybear Profile Private messageWebsite]

Flock or Rafter actually... Holy doodle - I think Mary has the same thing. I will take the Emu's there are only 4 of them! hahaha cheers Jan

FYI only:

aerie of eagles
aerie of hawks
ascension of larks
band of jays
bevy of doves
bevy of quail
bevy of swans
bouquet of pheasants (when flushed)
brace of ducks
brood of chickens
brood of chicks
brood of hens
brood of turkeys (immature)
building of rooks
bury of conies
cast of hawks
chain of bobolinks
charm of finches
charm of goldfinches
charm of hummingbirds
chattering of choughs
chattering of chicks
clamor of rooks
clutch of chicks
colony of gulls
colony of penguins
colony of vultures
company of parrots
congregation of birds
congregation of plovers
conspirancy of ravens
convocation of eagles
cote of doves
cover of coots
covey of pheasants (on the ground)
covey of ptarmigans
covey of grouse
covey of partridges
covey of quail
crèche of penguins
deceit of lapwings
descent of woodpeckers
dissimulation of birds
dole of doves
dule of turtledoves
dule of doves
exaltation of larks
fall of woodcocks
flight of birds
flight of cormorants
flight of doves
flight of pigeons
flight of swallows
flock of birds
flock of chickens
flock of ducks
flock of geese
flock of pigeons
flock of swifts
flock of turkeys
flush of ducks
gaggle of geese
hedge of herons
herd of curlews
herd of swans
host of sparrows
huddle of penguins
kettle of hawks
lamentation of swans
mob of emus
murder of crows
murmuration of starlings
muster of peacocks
muster of storks
mustering of storks
nest of pheasants
nide of pheasants (on the ground)
nye of pheasants (on the ground)
ostentation of peacocks
pack of grouse
paddling of ducks
parcel of penguins
parliament of rooks
parliament of owls
party of jays
peep of chickens
piteousness of doves
pitying of turtledoves
plump of wildfowl
plump or waterfowl
raft of wigeons
raft of ducks
rafter of turkeys
rookery of penguins
scold of jays
sedge of bitterns
sedge of cranes
sedge of herons
siege of bitterns
siege of cranes
siege of herons
skein of geese (in flight)
skein of goslings
sord of mallards
spring of teals
storytelling of crows
storytelling of ravens
storytelling of rooks
team of ducks
tidings of magpies
unkindness of ravens
volery of birds
wake of buzzards
walk of snipes
watch of nightingales
wedge of geese (flying in a 'V')
wedge of swans (flying in a 'V')
wing of plovers
wisdom of owls
wisp of snipes