STUPID TURKEYS!!!!! (fluff) (page 2)

anewme

No they werent elders hammering my car!!!

I have to agree, the wild turkeys around here pretty much keep to themselves. There is no befriending them.
And YES,CAN THEY FLY!!! They all live way up an old redwood tree that now is just a tall dead snag (probably from their night time perching on it for years and years)

Every night around 20 turkeys vie for a good spot on the old snag. They fly from all over the canyon to the highest limb they can reach. Ive surprised a few turkeys and they can jump up high and fly far and way up into the trees. It is surprising to see. The wild ones are slim compared to the hefty Thanksgiving ones in November.

There were two tribes or flocks of them last month of about 20 turkeys, little babies and their parents.
Some of the neighbors last year corralled a few and fattened them for the holiday slaughter.

I dont care to eat them.

But the longer I live up here the more I respect the people who lived here before me, the Indians and early pioneers who had to find water and hunt creatures and grow food.
Ive told a few stories so far of the wild life here in the dry canyons of California.
Ticks, hornets, turkeys, coyotes, possums,skunks,wild rabbits, big lizards and frogs that run into the house, wild cats, crazed dogs, along with the birds of every variety buzzards, hawks, herons, woodpeckers, magpie,crows,wild peacocks, mud birds, and lovely songsters, in addition to your cows, goats, sheep and horses and chickens and roosters on the next ranch.

Im sure I'll have a few more stories to tell before I leave here.

Thanks all for your posts.
Im over it. It is just a car.

Anewme

daniel-p

That image above with the hunters and turkeys is seriously disturbing. It looks like the "hands up the turkey's ass" pose. I dunno, maybe its just a redneck thing.

anewme

Nah, they're just holding them by their huge feet Daniel.

They have lots of babies, but few survive. At night around here you can hear one get killed by something.

Its sad but Ive come to accept the reality of the wild canyon life here and the plight of the animals up here. Its a race against the inevitable for alot of them.
I do see doves here and wonder how they survive with so many hawks.

I personally own 11 ring neck doves. One got out one day. Flew right by my hand while I was changing the water. It enjoyed about 10 minutes of freedom until a red tailed hawk swooped down and got him right in front of me.

Ive had these doves maybe 15 years now. I want to stay in the country life as long as possible.
Now it is my church where I draw spiritual strength and hope from the creatures and the beauty.

Anewme

hubert

And to think that Benjamin Franklin lobbied the founding fathers to make the turkey our national bird...

Good thing it didn't work....We'd be eating eagles for Thanksgiving.

Hubert

Dismembered

Greetings anewme,

If they didn't break the paint, take S4's advice and call a "paintless dent repair" company such as "Ding Doctor. They'll repair the dents at a fraction of the cost of a bodyshop.

Dismembered

anewme

Thanks Dismembered, yeah I called my husband at work and left him a message that something had happened to my car.

Next thing the phone rings with the husband all worried I smashed the car.
No, I said, two dang turkeys put 15 dents in the side of it.

"I'll look at it when I get home"

Yeah, he bought this little device awhile ago and it really works to take small dings out.
It may ease the dent depth a bit.....

But oh it was a beautiful shiny black car! Perhaps too shiny. Dang.

purplesofa

Ding Doctor

We have Dent Doctor here and if I am not mistaken was started by a Witness.

anewme,

Last Night i woke up at 3am.........came to the living room and heard a loud crash of glass breaking. I seriously thought OMG someone is smashing the window on one of the cars in the driveway!!!

I go to the frontdoor, which actually shows to the side of the house not front.........and look through the leaded glass.......only a small part you can see through......

and what do i see.........ONe.........twO.........three..........FIVE raccoons..........on my front porch! The glass was plate which had catfood on it for the cats.........

I guess they cannot get in the backyard.........or are scared to ..........as I used to have two big dogs back there.......as there is a huge bag of dogfood back there untouched.

purps

Seeker4

anewme,

Loved your description of your CA wild country. I've lived in rural Vermont all my life, and about 75% of what you listed lives here as well. Today just sitting outside on the deck, I saw dozens of birds, from hummingbirds working the flower garden to turkey vultures soaring overhead in the thermals. For about a half hour this morning as we sat on the deck talking, drinking coffee and reading, a whitetail doe was eating her way up towards the woods behind the house, and for a couple of weeks we've been watching a doe and twin fawns across the road in the fields around the railroad track that parallels the Connecticut River.

Each day we watch the life and death dramas of living naturally in the natural world. You get to see how one, death, is just as much a necessary part of it all as life. Makes it easier to accept your own place in the scheme of things.

Yeah, this is where I get my spiritual strength from too. My connection with this earth is so much more powerful this way than it was when I believed as the Witnesses do.

Hubert - That was pretty clever. Bet there would be a whole lot less snoozing on the couch after Thanksgiving dinner! Not too much of that tryptophan or whatever it is in those meatless eagle bodies!

In the last week Lori and I, while running the backwoods trails behind our house, have run onto a doe and a new fawn and two tom turkeys chest butting each other. Those bad boys could fly, I'll tell you! Probably were arguing about who was gonna beat the shit out of the next black luxury car they came across.

Daniel: That is a disturbing image, as you see it! What they are really doing is holding those tail feathers all fanned out and sexy. It's sort of the tom turkey (adult male) equivalent of a deer's rack.

S4

misspeaches

Anewme

If that was me I wouldn't know if I should laugh or I should cry.

This reminds me of a story from some years ago. Where we were renting we had a wild turkey living in our backyard. It was really stupid - what a turkey! LOL.

Anyway we also had a Ministerial Servant in our congregation - a real wannabe. A real turkey... And so we named the turkey after him!

Elsewhere

@$%^&*$#%#^&%@ Turkeys!!!!!!! TWO TOM TURKEYS JUST POUNDED 15 LARGE DENTS IN THE SIDE OF MY NICE BLACK MAXIMA!!!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE IT! I AM IN SHOCK! THE CAR IS RUINED!!!!

Oh heeeeeeeeeeell no!!! I would have gotten my shot gun and had myself a turkey shoot!

Maybe you can get your revenge by fattening them up for Thanksgiving... with them perched in that tree it should be easy pickings! They'll think they found a new buddy... but then November will roll around.

STUPID TURKEYS!!!!! (fluff)

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