Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for March 18, 2021

He’ll remember this in eight months, guys!

Slow enough to get all three and into the freezer tonight

You could always help them to become Roadkill

We get that a lot with Canadian geese here

As #1 gets safely across #2 will stop on the centerline and #3 will head back the way they came. ( My experience on US#23 in Algoma County, Michigan!)

This could be a lead on for juicy breasts and drumsticks, plus some really great buffalo wings.

Leisurely strutting indeed! After I stopped for them, one decided to charge the car. As I had the top down, I beat a hasty retreat in reverse.

We had a yardful of turkeys every winter morning when we were in Maine. I’d go out and feed them. But I have to say, I’ve never seen multiple males together. Generally it’s all ladies or ladies and a male they let hang around :)

They are so majestic ♡.

Must be young boys, no beards. ;0

Them turkeys can RUN if they have to; and they run almost as fast as they fly! For a big bird, they are VERY aerobatic!

DINNER!

Without beards, they’re all hen turkeys.

https://youtu.be/DCPwOKvwugc

I give them a toot on the horn and they scatter tight away.

Step proudly boys! After all, you were the first National Bird.

How long to Thanksgiving?

Around here it’s Sandhill Cranes. They’re quite big and rather fearless.

The turkeys know about the Gumbos family, alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KlCjCBLSY

Thanksgiving; Christmas; random smoked turkey just because you’re in the mood.

I once saw a herd of turkeys post road guards—2 walked out into the road and faced oncoming traffic in each lane while the others passed between them.

In my neighborhood it is Sandhill Cranes.

https://fsuornithology.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/bird-blog-4.png

Can’t expect too much, from something with a brain the size of a pistachio nut.

Around here it’s the Canada Geese.

And “here” is the Beautiful and Damp South Carolina Low Country!

i had 3 cranes do this to me at the stop sign down the street…they were walking so slow…as they finally got across, the largest one, male, turned looked at me and bowed saying thank you

Yeah that turkey