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But seriously, this must have been scary. A Tom turkey this time of year can eff you up. My friend’s little rooster is feisty right now and cut through her rain boots and got fabric embedded in the cut. The rooster is about 1/5 the size of that turkey, if that.
But it was funny to see. From the safety of my screen.
Yeah, they tend to avoid it. I’ve seen them walk up and down a fence line for a gap/hole to go through before finally one of them got tired enough to fly over it, and the rest followed.
I imagine its like getting out of a comfy recliner, you will do everything you can to not have to get out of it.
I have bent more than one pump over the head or body of a dog that didn’t get the message. Used to be standard armament on some of the rural VA routes I rode in the 80s (route 5 to between Williamsburg and Richmond was notoriously bad). I carry CO2 cartridges these days and fortunately haven’t had a dog issue but once in recent years and I had the jump on that one so just out-sprinted him.
Most of the year, you’ve dead on. But toms use flight in their territorial displays, especially when they get violent. Most of the times it’s just a dance-off, but some escalate to a scratch-fight.
It’s fascinating watching the mating madness come on even with our domestic birds. They’ve gotten decidedly weird in the last couple weeks as turkey pon farr settles in. Flying is the least weird thing happening!
Have you ever seen them doing their display on a misty, foggy morning? The way the light reflects around their plumes in glowing auras once convinced me they must be aliens. (I wasn’t on drugs, but I was reading a lot of Tom Robbins at the time).
“Can you help?”
“Sorry ma’am, I hope to live to see tomorrow, so no.”
Rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.
Let’s take a walk along the banks of the Anacostia River after dark shall we…
Where dead people float and shit doesn’t sink.
Prairie Chickens really put on a good show with their mating dances.
Well, I was not advocating for the turkey’s death but truly wondering how this turkey has evaded at least one of the 400 million guns in the USA. .
“kill everything that’s inconvenient” … is wrong, passenger pigeon wrong, climate change wrong.
he’s just a turkey, not a predator.
Now I am wondering whether the respondent is implying that killing herbivores is wrong but carnivores are ok to die because they are inconvenient; not sure how to take the three phrases together. To muddy the waters further, turkeys are said to be omnivores and will eat insects, lizards and rodents.
FWIW I think killing predators would be as wrong as killing herbivores, however wrong that may be.
Sounds much like the Fire Swamp! Delightful!
Honestly, it’s getting much better! Great strides from where it was just ten years ago
But if you knew the things I’ve seen while paddling along that stretch…
I wish I could give you another like for “turkey pon farr”. 
Excellent.
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