Turkey courtship in the urban jungle 🦃💕
@guthrie and I were up, getting the day started. We assumed that this morning was going to be like every other one until something truly entertaining presenting itself to us.
I noticed a family off to the side with their phones out and I didn’t realize what they were doing until I saw it.
To avoid any traffic accidents I passed the recording of the turkey’s over to @guthrie. So please, applaud his filming skills.
If you look closely then you’ll spot the lady turkey hanging out behind the fenced lawn.
And the two males squaring up. They kindly moved to the other side of the street so we could pass and we were able to make it to school on time. I let @guthrie show off the video to his teachers and classmates.
On the way back home I spotted the birds still going at it.
Hey lady! Let the man get some on the hump day dammit!! :D :D :D
Wow what a bizarre and exciting sight :D.
I wonder how long it will take for the lady bird to decide.
Definitely an entertaining start to the day. Turkeys are dumb 🤣
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This made me smile @vermillionfox as we have SO many turkeys round here and everyone keeps telling me stories about the increasing number of them. It's odd.
There must have been a mass release of birds in our area a few years ago, as we've been here at Toad Hall for some time and before that we used to come to the property years before that and then even earlier @winstonalden family has been here since 50's and this is the first time we've seen turkeys like this.
They increase in number each year. We have many coyotes and foxes and hunting birds here and have lost many chickens to them as well as a cat, so I think Turkeys must just be large enough to not be food for those predators and thus we get families of them all the time.
Sometimes when I'm walking I'll see just a few, but then their flock will come rambling out of the woods. In Summer with their chicks they are adorable and they'll also eat the seed from the bird feeders that hit the grass (the stuff the song birds know down)
I once caught one of my free range chickens following the turkey flock around our yard, but then they took off when I approached and my hen was like "Hey guys, no come back, this thing gives us food" but they weren't having it.
What a treat! I bet the little guy got a kick out of this!❤️
Hey, @vermillionfox.
Okay. So, is this common? My guess is no, but surely the turkeys don't live in the neighborhood? Is there a forest nearby? A farm? Any indication at all where these turkeys may have come from?
And were the males fighting at all, or just posturing? That would be kind of funny if they'd be going at it but then stop when cars came by. :)
I'm going to chalk this up as a once in a lifetime experience. We don't have any wild turkeys out here that I know of. Pretty awesome. :)