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.