Shortly after lunch today, I noticed a tom turkey and five hens meandering around our “front forty”.
The females were quite drab and practical. They spent ninety percent of the time foraging and pretty much ignored the tom.
The male on the other hand was splendid in his spring finery and strutted his stuff ninety percent of the time.
Of course, I spent ninety percent of the time with the camera focused on the male!
All of these photos were made through the glass of our storm door. These birds are way too wary to do anything else.
After about a half hour, they wandered around the garden, down the hill and out of sight.
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Interesting – you really need those odes to arrive! Were you able to get model releases from this tom?
Comment by Joe Kennedy — 30 April 2019 @ 7:46 AM