A bit past peak
The last flame of autumn: (I don’t know why he went into eclipse! He’s too young!) Bobcat track. You’ve already seen the bobcat, though: Quaking aspens against a blue sky: Wild turkeys trying to hide:
View ArticleTurkeys in the misty November gloom
Source. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think some velociraptors were out stalking the mist.
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In most of the US, this is Thanksgiving week, but here in West Virginia, it’s deer season. I’ve seen only one deer in two days. I’m that bad a hunter, but I’ve seen more than a few turkeys. Which is a...
View ArticleTurkey bunch
A big flock of wild turkeys (hens and this year’s poults) cam by the Moultrie 1100i.
View ArticleGrandpa’s Bird
If you were to travel the back roads along the wild border between Calhoun and Gilmer Counties and mention my name to some well-worn local, you would probably get “You mean that guy who kills all the...
View ArticleRenegade
My guess is this is a wild turkey hen trying to hide her poults in the tall grass. She probably had them out for a nice grasshopper hunt on a balmy June morning. but when she encountered me, she went...
View ArticleRunning into poults
I went out on a late June saunter with camera in hand. It is that time of year just as the gloriousness of high summer begins its slow slide into the muggy doldrums of the the dog days. It is the...
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The early weeks of May begin the age of green pastels. The soft greenery of foliage pokes its way out of the gray smudge of the canopy, and the pastures are thickly verdant in the revived grass. This...
View ArticleStory in the Sand
We came to the forest to run the dogs. Many days of hard driving down the East Coast had made them edgy, so we left the wild road of I-95 at Ormond Beach and slipped down through the land of the pine...
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