Talking Turkey
 

I swear, the past two mornings have been like "Wild Kingdom" around here! I've seen deer and fox and geese and skunks and raccoons and coyotes and...

Yesterday I was driving home from work and I noticed a wild turkey at the side of the road. I was tired and just sort of stared at it, forgetting that when a wild turkey has it's tail feathers fanned, it's usually showing off for a hen.

All of a sudden it runs across the road in front of me!:eek: We're not talking a little turkey here folks! This sucker was almost as big as the mouse car! I had to jack up and come to a complete halt! The truck behind me did the same, and he wasn't happy...until the rest of the twelve that accompanied that first turkey blasted out of the brush and ran across while we were stopped!! LMOA!!

So I drive off and all of a sudden BAM!! This huge turkey FLIES across the road in front of me!! He may have been walking while in the bushes on the side of the road and then took to the air to test the waters...I slammed on my brakes again, the guy behind me does the same and ...here comes another crowd of turkeys!!!

Now I am watching the sides of the road like a hawk, the guy in the truck gets OFF my butt and stays back a reasonable distance...I come around a curve and there's ANOTHER flock of turkeys in the road!!!

I am almost in tears laughing now, because it's just so freaky! The guy in the truck sits behind me and watches the turkeys make their way across the road slowly, shaking his head.

Half a mile...more turkeys. I stopped again and made like I had a shotgun and was shooting the turkeys. I look in the rearview mirror...and this guy is doing the same thing!!! We're both laughing now and off we go. I drove the rest of the way home vewwy vewwy carefully...

This morning I get out of work and start the ride home and who is behind me...but the same guy. I drive down the road, already laughing because up ahead I seeee...YUP

There were at least 50 turkeys in the flock in the road. They stopped traffic both ways this time, people are blowing their horns and the birds are just showing their tails to their ladies and ignoring the growing crowd of cars. One man had the temerity to pull around the stopped vehicles and try to go through the crowd of turkeys...they attacked his car.

The guy in the pickup truck and I are in hysterics laughing now, he follows me again, and every place we saw turkeys yesterday, there they all were again.

Needless to say, I am driving a LOT slower these days...:p

LOL, I can see it all in the theatre of my mind.:D I'm glad you didn't nail any of 'em, a good sized tom could probably take out the entire front end of your pocket car, Nanc!

We have a flock in the neighborhood here, it's only about 25 strong but I swear, they wait for cars just to be obnoxious!

My car would have been totaled.

My Dad was in the AF for 35 years. When he got out, he turned into a mailman...LOL...He was double dipper on the federal pension.

He lived in Massachusetts, city type place, outside of Boston, lots of traffic. He used to have to park his truck and walk most of his route...until the wild turkeys started chasing him down and attacking him.

He complained to the postmaster and the guy didn't believe him, until he did a ride along/walk along to check it out...and was attacked and mauled by the turkeys. Dad jumped a fence into a yard to get away but the other guy didn't make it over the fence...LOL!


The bigwigs came down and refigured the mail route to avoid having their employees attacked by turkeys!! The route was made into a driving route where the turkeys hung out...:p

The same guy's behind you RW, cuz you both left the same bar!!! :D

Actually, we have a bunch of wild turkeys around here and they seem to be off in a certain field, but your'e right; ya gotta keep your eyes peeled, cuz when they get by the road>>>>> yikes.

I've never seen as many as you did tho. Wow!

Too funny RW! I used to live by a lake here and every spring this would happen with the Canadian Geese. We are overwhelmed by them here. Some people do get upset when you let them cross....I enjoy it! They are soooo cute!

Best to ya,
J

I love the wild turkeys. I even embarass my kids and talk to them.:)

Around here its the same thing with deer. If one crosses the road,
there usually a few more following. Not as many as the turkeys
though;)

Sox

Sounds a lot like how some of the men here in Georgia act after a late night of drinking with the boys.....:D:p

You ladies are too funny!

I thought I saw a turkey with his feathers fanned out yesterday and I thought I was seeing things. I had to do a double take and still didn't believe it. I was driving down an off ramp from the highway and looked to the right, which is in a cemetery, and there he was. I thought maybe it was some kind of plant that someone left on a gravestone but I guess it might have been the real deal.

RW glad you didn't total the mouse!:p

we had some of these near where I lived in Monterey. I couldn't believe the size - nothing like what I'd seen in the south. I seriously thought we had a velociraptor infestation!:D

I will vouch for this..... it is certainly a mouse car!!