Re: turkeys

Yeh...we had a domesticated turkey that chased cars, people, dogs. He thought he was all that and then some. He chased everybody but me...I always fed him the grasshoppers from my garden..so he liked me. :-)

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6


From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT]turkeys
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:37:04 -0600

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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