TURKEY for BREAKFAST
 

i finally got a picture of a male (Tom) Turkey with his flock of hens.
he was watching me though.....very carefully. :wave: i see you!
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ALE_Turkey.jpg

Males can get quite aggressive.

he was big too...
 

Wishing i had captured him in full feather strut mode which we saw
but didnt get on film.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...OM--Turkey.jpg

When he goes into full display and his head goes to bright blue, back away slowly. He's about to show off for the hens, and you're about to become an example.:shocked: There's more turkeys now than ever.

Saw these in the neighborhood, they've been hanging out all winter.

Watching someone get assaulted by a turkey is definitely funny. I saw a nearly 40# Thanksgiving bird let his owner have it one time. Blood was drawn, and not the turkey's. The turkey won the battle, but not the war...

funny story
 

Im from Boston that is where I grew up until I moved out to Raynham I never ever saw a turkey except on Thanksgiving on the table one day I was driving through the farm district of Raynham and I seen a whole flock of those big black birds I did not know what they where I stopped the car got out and looked at them Hmmm! Damn Vultures in Raynham I thought they only where out west I thought to myself didnt have a clue what those where until I told the wife I seen a whole flock of vultures up in the field and her being from Bridgewater knew they where turkeys!!:jump:

In a stand
 

Deer hunting about 4:30 a.m. sitting up against a tree in the deep woods of Plymouth, mass. 20 years ago I had the bejesus scaid out of me when a large tom took off from above me. He roosted in the tree overnight and must have been pissed when I sat down. I looked up at the first turkey in flight I ever saw and nearly jumped out of my boots. Huge friggin bird...

I was driving my daughter to work and we saw one in full feather strut with his hens. great looking birds tasty to

Raven
 

Cracked cow corn to the butcher block...preheat oven

slow cook at 300 with a little canola oil and a full baconwrap cover with foil and remove for 15 minutes at 450 to brown and blast...gobble gobble gobble :usd:

i dont understand why
 

but i never hear the turkey's (males) gobblin....around here...i see them in groups
or sometimes just a pair of hens....rarely a Jake and so far i haven't heard a gobble gobble yet.... somethin about the nor east i heard.
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anyways i'll never forget....Tent camping once in the Sequoia National
Park...and it was real Pristine...(5000ft) we're the only people there ...5:00 am first light:
and the deer were coming thru the camp (i have it on movie film)

...back to the story: slowly but surely.... this tom turkey kept gobblin see and getting closer and closer and closer to the campground until it was like "in stereo loud"
and i wake the wife...to say: Look honey! (->out the tent window) check out the turkey coming into the camp !

she says: ALL Cranky like :bl: "is that what i've been hearing ,wakin me up?? :mad: I NOD, yep! and SHE JUST Yells at that Turkey real LOUD !!
"GET OUTTA HERE YA FRAGGIN TURKEY " .......and the turkey freak's out and flew away.... heh heh heh it was hilarious.....

At 1st Light
 

That flock must roost nearby

Go out at first light and produce a great horned owl call....cupped hands..... deep HOO.... HOO-HOO...and if the Tom is close enough by whether he is with the Flock and he should be now ...in Spring he might roost by himself....he should go nuts if you can do a decent owl call.

It is quite the wildness if he does it :uhuh:

Come to think of it, I've never heard them in New England . In Northeastern Kentucky, all the time , but here no. I have seen one chasing a hawk through the trees at Head of the Meadow though. Impressive flying for such a big bird. The hawk looked scared.

theres some here....and i listened for them during late january when it was warm for their mating calls (mating season) ....good idea ...i'll try it because i have an excellent owl call i learned from livin in the mountains in the west. hoo hoo hooo ...- hoo hoo

hoo are you...hoo hoo hoo hoo:hf1: