"Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world - fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names - though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them." ~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
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.