A band of 3 marauder jakes that are always trying to steal the girls....
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"Droptine"
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Turkey train...
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A couple I caught crossing a road by one of my areas...
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Another sunrise in apple country...
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Another over a local reservoir, we're never alone in nature...
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Now back to "Hook" and "Crook" seeming to be best buds....
I was driving thru one of the orchard yesterday evening on a little scouting mission. I drove in saw one hen, turned around and drove right back out, not 5 minutes had passed since I drove through on the way in.....
I turn a corner and there's Hook and Crook in an all out, knock down-drag out turkey fight like I've never witnessed in my life!
I drove to within 50yds. before I saw them. I just stopped, grabbed my bino's and couldn't believe what I was seeing!
It was a very even battle, and seemed to sway back and forth as the flew up at each other, banging together in an attempt to spur the other. They neck wrestled and pecked each other so violently that both of them were a bloody mess!
I could easily see with my bino's that each birds beak was blood red, and both had open, dripping bloody gashes on there heads and upper necks!
There heads where a color I've never seen before in a turkey....purple! All purple, top to bottom. Must be the color they turn when aggressive and angry.
I mean this was almost hard to watch for the 5 minutes I did...it was extremely violent!
In the end it was Crook that eventually gave in and started to run off...with Hook right on his tail feathers....
All that and no camera!!
Topic: Some pix from a months worth of Turkey scouting... (Read 337 times)
