Wild Turkey Spring Competition, Sunol Ca. (Nikon D800e)
These guys can be very aggressive during mating season and when the hens are nesting.
They have been known to take near vertical flight and attack humans with their talons.
Shooting with a long lens is recommended…
Here I used a NIKKOR 200-500mm on the D800e.
Shot at ISO 100, F6.3, 500mm at 1/125th
From 1959 through 1999, the Commission, now the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, imported and released thousands of live-trapped wild turkeys (mostly of the Rio Grande subspecies from Texas) at over 200 locations, and these had no problem adapting to the California environment. Their population rapidly increased and their territory expanded throughout the state. Today, descendants of these turkeys occupy over 29,000 square miles of California—about one quarter of the state.
Wild Turkey Spring Competition, Sunol Ca. (Nikon D800e)
These guys can be very aggressive during mating season and when the hens are nesting.
They have been known to take near vertical flight and attack humans with their talons.
Shooting with a long lens is recommended…
Here I used a NIKKOR 200-500mm on the D800e.
Shot at ISO 100, F6.3, 500mm at 1/125th
From 1959 through 1999, the Commission, now the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, imported and released thousands of live-trapped wild turkeys (mostly of the Rio Grande subspecies from Texas) at over 200 locations, and these had no problem adapting to the California environment. Their population rapidly increased and their territory expanded throughout the state. Today, descendants of these turkeys occupy over 29,000 square miles of California—about one quarter of the state.