Turkey Talk

I was driving south of Marion, North Carolina when I saw this wild turkey alongside a car parked on the shoulder of the road. The people inside the car seemed to be talking to the turkey and he looked like he was enjoying the company. I turned around and parked on a side road across from the car and turkey to get a few pictures.

As I parked the other car made a u-turn in the road and the turkey chased them like a dog. I don't think he wanted them to leave. The turkey was now standing in the middle of the road and I was afraid he was going to get hit by a car, but the cars slowed down when they went by and the turkey chased them too.

I was concerned that this turkey was about to make a fatal error chasing cars when an eighteen wheeler approached. The turkey heard the big truck and he took off running down the dirt driveway away from the road -- smart turkey.

After his close encounters he came back to the road, but stayed on the shoulder and started strutting and gobbling. I gobbled at him and he gobbled back. I think he was looking for a turkey "chick", after all it is springtime.

For pictures you can go to the website:
http://home.comcast.net/~ga-rider/photo_pages/turkey/turkey.htm

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Pets & Animals

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• Turkey
• North
• Carolina
• gobble
• gobbling
• talking

[bignutffa]

Very nice Royal Palm Tom