Found a bunch of these:
AND run into the inhabitants of this country subdivision:
Gobble gobble 🙂
Durn turkeys must be roosting on that rooftop. Can't think of any other reason why there would be so much white stuff up there.
What they really like is Cottonwood trees for roosting. I remember seeing about 200 turkeys in the Flint Hills about 25 years ago. We got em now! I haven't seen them on our place yet but all around us. They seem to be doing real well. Before long they will be real pests like the deer! So what eats turkeys, they should be showing up before long.
Yeah, it snowed a bit on me today also. Melted within minutes.
The upside for running into turkeys while surveying - they don't ask what you are doing, tell you to get lost, show you bench marks (corners), tell you that you got it all wrong, or tag along slowing down the work.
A Browning A5 or maybe a Remington 870 will be showing up!!?
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Fried turkey gumbo... mmmm!
LR,
What are the odds these are the same gobblers? My sighting was up uphill from Skyline Mountain Resort, at the in-laws cabin. Yes/No?
Fairly close. I'm south (survey project) a couple miles from Skyline Mtn about 2 miles. Nice picture facing back towards my little berg, Fairview.
The turkeys are taking over the foothills, there is a bunch in Indianola. They been working their way south into the Milburn/Fairview area. Our farm is more in the middle to westerly side of things but they will probably get there sooner or later.
Couple years ago I run into a bunch (50 or more) in Indianola. First time I had ever seen them fly. They can fly a lot better than I ever imagined. Leave a pheasant in the dust for sure. $35 bucks for a Utah turkey permit (one turkey) and you need to need to draw. I don't hunt, I think you can buy a turkey for dinner for about half that. Sanpete County is a big turkey producer (many millions per year). The domestic turkeys are white, really dumb and don't fly so good.
Anyway enjoy your vacations to Sanpete and spend some money while you're here. You could even stop by and say hello.
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THANKS FOR THE LAUGH!!!!
Yeah, that's a classic for sure.
The domestic turkeys are white, really dumb and don't fly so good.
Nothing like a high fence Turkey Hunt! They are all over Skyline Mtn. I'm just glad they haven't taken over the golf course. Yet..
Nice area you live, and work in. I'll holler if we get the chance to cross paths.
It's hard to believe the domestic turkey is related to the wild one. As a teenager I helped a neighbor vaccinate and later, load out their turkeys. The domestic turkey is the dumbest animal that can remember how to walk.
Any little thing can cause mob panic with a bunch of smothered ones at the bottom of the pile. The guy avoided square fence corners to minimize this problem.
If they got out in the road, you learned not to honk your horn because that would bring them all crowding around you. You put the car in low and inched forward and unless you were unlucky they slowly got out of the way.
I can't confirm it, but almost believe the rumor that they can drown in a heavy rain because they would look up to see where the water was coming from.
You got it right!
In high school most of us were either farm kids or had relation that were farmers/ranchers. We would argue which was dumber a sheep or a turkey. It's close but I think we finally settled on the turkey.
Fellow Alumni
Mr. Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati and I are alumni of the same institution of higher learning. I will claim him. I'm much more reluctant to claim whatsisname who is currently on Modern Family. You know, the big guy who lives with the little guy with a red beard. Gold-something I think.
