Today was one of those days where I just couldn’t be bothered to pick up the camera. 55 days in and I have probably had about three days like that. I didn’t want to shoot. So I didn’t. At one point when I was driving home from a Target run I was just shooting silly things with my cameraphone every time I came to a stop. I thought I would have to use one of those for today’s picture.
Then, as I was getting ready for work, my elder daughter caught sight of a couple wild turkeys in our back yard. She yelled, “Look, turkeys!”. Once I realized that she wasn’t talking about something on the computer or television, I grabbed the camera and started shooting. They didn’t come out great as I was inside shooting through a sliding glass door. There were two birds, but I cropped one out so you could get a better look at the one below. If you really want to see more, you can click the picture and start looking through my flickr photstream.
We see turkeys once in a while in the general region, but never before in our backyard.
This makes two days in a row I post a picture of a bird.
10 responses so far ↓
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tom
// Mar 28, 2008 at 8:54 am
A little while back my father was in the hospital, he’s out now, and there were tons of these wild turkeys hanging outside his window..they reminded me of Vultures and I told dad it was kinda creepy.
I think with all the construction going on they are being driven out of their natural habitats.
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Rick Astley
// Mar 28, 2008 at 10:02 am
When I read your daughter’s comment - but before I scrolled down - I thought for sure your picture was going to be of your sons…
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PG
// Mar 28, 2008 at 10:11 am
I did think about saying something like “it’s not the first time we’ve had turkeys playing in our swingset” or something along those lines!
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jason
// Mar 28, 2008 at 11:12 am
Cool. I’ve never seen a wild turkey. I saw a roadrunner on our street once though.
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Xbox4NappyRash
// Mar 28, 2008 at 1:45 pm
looks like a grouse to me…
but I’m going from the whiskey bottle labels of course…
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CableGirl
// Mar 28, 2008 at 8:22 pm
So, I’ll trade you a turkey for a peacock. We get those roaming our backyard all the time.
Happy hoppin….
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Pomtini
// Mar 28, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Wild turkey … how cool… I thought it was a drink too
Bloghoppin’
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Tracy
// Mar 28, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Those wild turkeys can be BEASTS. One of them gave my dog the biggest lecture on the trial once!
Blog hopping. Happy weekend!
Tracy
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Ed (zoesdad)
// Mar 29, 2008 at 10:12 am
Dude, must you continually challenge me? Now I’ve got to beat a turkey!
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bryan
// Mar 30, 2008 at 11:11 pm
i see your turkey and raise it. uh, with another turkey. my post on 11.06.07. but i guess you get points for them being wild. nice catch.
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