Thursday, November 26, 2009

Malleagris gallopavo: Wild Turkey


Happy Thanksgiving!

The wild turkey isn't the bird that ends up on most of our tables on Thanksgiving -- that's a domestic turkey -- but the wild ones are the ones we think about when we think about the holiday.

The fun thing is, there are wild turkeys in this area. There's a group of them that lives out in Otis Orchards, where B goes to stay when we're out of town, and occasionally I'll see a few on my morning walks.

That dude's got a lot going on there. I'm sure if I were a female turkey, I'd find him quite sexy.

Doodled from a photo on the flickr photostream of dracobotanicus.