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What do wild turkeys do in the snow?
When the wild turkeys forage for acorns in the snow, they have to dig them up. I’ve tried to get some photos of massive turkey scratches in the leaf litter early this year, but they’ve not shown up...
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The turkey flush
Miley jumped a flock of about 30 wild turkeys this afternoon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the camera on when they flew, and when I tried to get a perched bird in the telephoto lens, it must have...
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Encounters with a wild turkey family
Today, I went out without a dog. Most wild animals here still have a very strong aversion to wolves, and because coyotes are the main large predator in this, large canids make them wary. So if you go...
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Game camera captures
All this week. Turkey vultures: A few deer: A wild turkey hen: And a golden coyote:
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Toms and jakes
The sun was not cooperating, but look at the beards on those toms! Source. Outside of the mating season, male and female turkeys form sex-segregated groups. Oh, and a word about the terminology: In the...
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Flock of turkeys out after grasshoppers
There were a lot of them, but it looked like two mature hens and their creche of at least 15 nearly grown poults.
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White-tailed deer eating with wild turkeys
White-tailed deer and Eastern wild turkeys eating at the same table! Source. Two deer, a buck and a doe, shared their feeding station with a mega-flock of turkeys this week. Here’s the playlist, with...
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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:
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Turkeys 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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Seasonably appropriate
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...
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Turkey bunch
A big flock of wild turkeys (hens and this year’s poults) cam by the Moultrie 1100i.
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Grandpa’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...
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Renegade
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...
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