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Well it isn't as dramatic as I sometimes see, but I got a video of the wild turkeys coming for breakfast yesterday. They were more skittish than usual, maybe from the train that's passing and audible in the background. But like usual, the flock hangs back and sends a scout to see if it's OK. As soon as she starts eating, the rest come running.

 

Well it isn't as dramatic as I sometimes see, but I got a video of the wild turkeys coming for breakfast yesterday. They were more skittish than usual, maybe from the train that's passing and audible in the background. But like usual, the flock hangs back and sends a scout to see if it's OK. As soon as she starts eating, the rest come running.



First one was a jake.

Fun birds to watch.
Good thing they are not four times bigger though..
 

Well it isn't as dramatic as I sometimes see, but I got a video of the wild turkeys coming for breakfast yesterday. They were more skittish than usual, maybe from the train that's passing and audible in the background. But like usual, the flock hangs back and sends a scout to see if it's OK. As soon as she starts eating, the rest come running.


Cool video, the first one in is a Jake, young male turkey, I normally have several feed at our bird feeder in the winter but haven't seen any so far this winter.
 

Well it isn't as dramatic as I sometimes see, but I got a video of the wild turkeys coming for breakfast yesterday. They were more skittish than usual, maybe from the train that's passing and audible in the background. But like usual, the flock hangs back and sends a scout to see if it's OK. As soon as she starts eating, the rest come running.


Love it 😁👍
 

First one was a jake.

Fun birds to watch.
Good thing they are not four times bigger though..
So that's what they call the males.
Still on Turkeys.
I was very disappointed recently to find out that one of my favourite drinks from the US, Wild Turkey does not even contain any! False advertising. 🫤
 

So that's what they call the males.
Still on Turkeys.
I was very disappointed recently to find out that one of my favourite drinks from the US, Wild Turkey does not even contain any! False advertising. 🫤

A male is a Tom.
Jake is a first year tom.

Bottled Wild Turkey might be a little like chicken noodle soup in a can of which it is rumored the chicken wore rubber boots and walked through it. As opposed to actually containing any real fragment of a chicken.

Pork and beans at least has a an individual less than gram probably piece of pork (?) in it.
Why it isn't called beans and pork eludes me as much as chicken noodle instead of noodles and perhaps some chicken D.N.A. on a single bit of dander that fell off the booted fowl on it's stroll /wade through the soup...
Well it is called soup anyways.
I guess if I added noodles to a bowl of heated seawater it would be called soup too?
 

A male is a Tom.
Jake is a first year tom.

Bottled Wild Turkey might be a little like chicken noodle soup in a can of which it is rumored the chicken wore rubber boots and walked through it. As opposed to actually containing any real fragment of a chicken.

Pork and beans at least has a an individual less than gram probably piece of pork (?) in it.
Why it isn't called beans and pork eludes me as much as chicken noodle instead of noodles and perhaps some chicken D.N.A. on a single bit of dander that fell off the booted fowl on it's stroll /wade through the soup...
Well it is called soup anyways.
I guess if I added noodles to a bowl of heated seawater it would be called soup too?
I saw the beard and I was going to comment that is she might be identifying as a he.
Or was it that he was the new she?

Then the query I read that 10% of the hens have a beard. Some areas can be 30%.

But is it a beard or a waddle hang down?

I didn’t want the wild turkey gender etiquette squad come a pecking at my door. 😁
 

First one was a jake.
Thanks. (I almost went back and edited after posting to change "she" to "he", but I wasn't sure, so just left it.)

Then the query I read that 10% of the hens have a beard. Some areas can be 30%.
I'd heard that too. And I've not seen that one strutting (yet?) either, but spring is coming, so we'll find out, I guess. It does make a certain amount of sense that it would be a male that goes first and checks things out before the flock follows.
 

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