GOBBLE GOBBLE

[kz_blogorambling]

I'd been meaning to post this. There is a flock of about 17 of these godawful ugly things stalking around my Dad's neighborhood. They've largely lost their fear of people and cars, which is why you can find yourself waiting in the road drumming your fingers on the steering wheel while they stroll across at their leisure. Fuzzy because it was taken through a window.

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[woohag.livejournal.com]

Clearly they've escaped the Skanksgiving Factory in search of their freedom...in your dad's neighborhood.

[rasa.livejournal.com]

Oh man, at the house, there were HUGE flocks of them there too! There was so much dead leaf cover on the ground that when they'd go through the yard, all you'd hear was CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH of leaves and an occasional gobble.

[justplainbryan.livejournal.com]

It just floors me that there are wild turkeys running about this close to Thanksgiving. Are they protected by law or something?

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

Well, you can't shoot them when they're so close to houses. And my dad actually likes them because they eat a TON of grasshoppers. So even after years and years of going turkey hunting and coming back empty handed most times, he wouldn't touch them.

They might be someone's escaped flock. Not sure.

[zette.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that makes me miss my NY house. I was upstairs once washing dishes, facing the backyard and had the window open, and all of a sudden I hear "GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!" At fist I thought my mother in law stopped for a visit or something, but when I looked up there were about 30 huge, fat turkeys wandering around in the yard. The neighbor had been throwing cracked corn out and they love it, evidently. So funny. A whole damned FLOCK.

[rasa.livejournal.com]

and all of a sudden I hear "GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!" At fist I thought my mother in law stopped for a visit or something...

Does she not know how to use a doorbell!?

Oh man Zettie... just the way you phrased that sentence cracked me up for real!

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're not exactly pretty, are they?

[themermaid.livejournal.com]

You put your left foot in.....

[bluedragon73.livejournal.com]

In Michigan, at least Southeast Michigan, there was a while there when you could not hunt turkeys. Now that the population is back up, they have a hunting season again.
We have them roost in our backyard all the time. And don't be afraid to drive when they are in the road, they fly very well.