Talking Turkey

The Foodie Daughter directed my attention

out the back window this morning.

There in the back of the yard was a flock of seven

wild turkeys.

For most of the year, wild turkeys travel together

in single-sex flocks: females together or males together.

Wild turkeys are large birds,

with the females growing to about three feet

and the males growing to about four feet.

They are not as fat as domesticated turkeys,

which have been bred to yield more meat.

Domesticated turkeys thus can no longer fly.

Click on the pictures to see these magnificent

birds better.

You can get a better idea of why Benjamin Franklin

wanted to make the wild turkey the national bird.

A few years ago I found this wild turkey feather

in our back yard.  

It is about twelve inches long.