Re: turkeys

Bright probably in comparison to the domesticated turkey :+)!
Cathy
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 12:49 PM, David Franzman wrote:
I went steelhead fishing up the coast yesterday and on the way we almost
wiped out a half dozen wild turkeys. They very slowly made their way across
the hiway. I thought wild turkeys were bright? These certainly weren't.

DF

cathy carpenter wrote:

The reason, I think that Benjamin Franklin wanted the Wild Turkey as our
national symbol. He considered the Bald Eagle of questionable character.
Cathy

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Island Jim wrote:

this is my bald eagle/blue heron story. if you've read it a dozen times
before, accept my apology and hit the delete button.

it was a warm day in winter, the short one and i had just purchased a
new convertible [her mid-life chrysler], and we were driving through
blackwater wildlife refuge with the top down. blackwater is on the
chesapeake bay out of cambridge, maryland. the road through the refuge
is essentially a big loop and we were on the back side of the loop. on
the driver's side of the road was a swale with maybe a foot or so of
water in it.

we marvelled to see, a short way ahead of us a great blue heron fishing
the swale and--as we watched, it caught a fish! but just as we were
congratulating ourselves on such a witnessing [and by now we were
nearly abreast of the heron], we heard a most blood-curdling scream.
and there, maybe 10 feet from the car was a bald eagle, flying at the
heron, talons and claws in front, and demanding the fish.

the heron [no dummy, of course] dropped the fish. the eagle caught it
before it hit the water. and was off. we watched its flight as it
headed straight for a tree-top nest maybe 500 yards away.
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