All neighborhoods are the same in that locals take notice when strangers show up. Yesterday, six turkeys appeared just outside my back fence. In the last thirty years, I have seen turkeys here a couple times, but they are a rarity.
As
Desiree and I watched the turkeys scratching at the snow to find pine nuts amid
the cones under the trees, one of the local deer, a yearling, arrived. Upon spotting the huge birds, the deer
cautiously backed-up to a safe distance and observed. Obviously, the deer had never encountered
turkeys before.
After
watching the turkeys for a minute, the deer bounced over my fence and came
closer to the house to seek something good to eat. Not long after that, a neighborhood magpie
spotted the turkeys and swooped down to perch in a pine tree directly above
them, wondering if the bigger birds might have some lunch worth sharing.
I
have posted a photograph Desiree captured of the deer encounter. If you look to the bottom left, you can spot the
turkeys just below the fence.
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