"Quick...Hide!"
In the last decade I've photographed a number of turkey hens. Not many, but every couple of years I find a few. I've never found a Tom...or at least have never seen on presenting the fanned tail feathers. Spotted a small flock of them bar back from the road. Turned my truck into an off-road vehicle, drove to get closer, and then climbed out to get as close as I could. The turkeys...a dozen or more, and two Toms...were not overly concerned, and just slowly walked away back into the treeline.
Today is a major Holiday for some. It is the first day of spring turkey hunting season, celebrated joyously by that segment of the population who are anxious to kill anything and everything that the law allows them to slaughter. For some species, we don't have to worry about climate change causing them to go extinct. All the shotgun and rifle-toting blood lust killers will do the job quite adequately.
(And YES, I own guns, I enjoy shooting...but I am not a hunter, never have been, and see no point other than satisfying some worrisome psychological desire to KILL things which pose no threat and cannot fight back. Oh well, at the very least it proves that the concept of human evolution is over-rated.)
Top comment box photo shows some of the wild flock.
"Quick...Hide!"
In the last decade I've photographed a number of turkey hens. Not many, but every couple of years I find a few. I've never found a Tom...or at least have never seen on presenting the fanned tail feathers. Spotted a small flock of them bar back from the road. Turned my truck into an off-road vehicle, drove to get closer, and then climbed out to get as close as I could. The turkeys...a dozen or more, and two Toms...were not overly concerned, and just slowly walked away back into the treeline.
Today is a major Holiday for some. It is the first day of spring turkey hunting season, celebrated joyously by that segment of the population who are anxious to kill anything and everything that the law allows them to slaughter. For some species, we don't have to worry about climate change causing them to go extinct. All the shotgun and rifle-toting blood lust killers will do the job quite adequately.
(And YES, I own guns, I enjoy shooting...but I am not a hunter, never have been, and see no point other than satisfying some worrisome psychological desire to KILL things which pose no threat and cannot fight back. Oh well, at the very least it proves that the concept of human evolution is over-rated.)
Top comment box photo shows some of the wild flock.