Jive Frozen Turkey

[razorjak]

My mum sent me a few pics she took from the house last week after some of the storms. Posting these because there are a few on my friends list who've never experienced the joy of a Michigan winter.



A wild turkey hen came to inspect the beedfeeders around the outside of the house since they were within reach of her. She's about 6 inches from the living room window.

To give you an idea of the size of the snowdrifts. The beedfeeder that turkey hen is standing next to is about 6' tall.





Sunset from the livingroom window.



More pics of the scenery from the sideyard.



My dad, enjoying his retirement



Sunset over the breakwater pier in Frankfort.

Comments

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's beautiful!

Well, aside from the wild turkey. They're bad tempered.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Heh, and bold as hell. They've gotten to be a lot more common around here in the last twenty years or so. Nowadays I come across more turkey flocks crossing the road than deer when I go visit my folks.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

get a hunting license!
"wild" turkey is the latest trendy meat, here. :) they've got farms raising them!

excellent pics. makes me a bit homesick.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Turkey season is over.

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Indeed, aggressive and stupid (or at least a very low sort of intellect). Kind of like the frat boys of the animal world. There weren't too many around my home stomping grounds, but I have memories of them chasing around and gobbling wildly.

A friend of mine has a story about how a flock chased him to his car and attacked it. He's a very big guy, so the mental image of him fleeing from turkeys always cracks me up. :>

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

You obviously have never been attacked by big birds. :-)

Birds are almost pure muscle. Those pecks have a force behind them. Hell, a goose or swan can actually hurt a fullgrown man.

Let me face a rampaging goat before having to mess with a rampaging turkey.

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Not for quite a while, certainly. I remember running away from geese when I was younger, and some vicious chicken incidents, but I'd not thought about them for a while...

The only birds we raised were roaster chickens, and they were more trauma inducing during when they were butchered than when they were alive.

Thinking of big birds, one of my HS teachers used to raise emus. I remember her coming in one day looking like she'd gotten into a car wreck, one of them had chased her down and kicked her ass. Mean birdies!

"Tweet on this, motherfucker!"

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Heh, I actually dread encountering cassowarys more. I've had up close encounters with both.

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Why on earth have you had to deal with such large and nasty birds?

I think a cassowary is closer to a dinosaur than a bluebird, but that's just me... ;)

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

I lived in Queensland. Used to go visit a farming family who were friends with my host family.

Walking in the rainforest near Mossman, QLD ... I hear some rustling in the underbrush, turn around and there was the biggest fucking helmet headed dinosaur bird I'd ever witnessed!

I literally screamed, "It's TURKZILLA!"

[baobh.livejournal.com]

I think that is one of the situations that one is never quite properly prepared for. Though I'm attempting to, I can't quite figure out how I'd react to a giant bird appearing out of the woods.

Knowing my normal response to startling things, I'd probably scream, throw whatever I had in my hands in it's general direction and fall over. Because I'm apparently programmed to be loud, violent, then when neither work, curl up in a ball and try not to die.

So, what was Queensland like, aside from the Big Bird on acid?

[shyney.livejournal.com]

It is beautiful...and I would'nt throw anything at a cassowary...they are quite dangerous if provoked. And ya gotta look out for the drop bears too

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm hoping to never be placed in the situation where I'm looking at a great big fuckin' bird coming at me and glancing at whatever is in my hand and deciding if I should throw it or just try to run away or climb a tree. ;) I appreciate wildlife, but birds are just weird.

One of these days I'll get to that hemisphere and see all of the pretty scenery for myself!

[shyney.livejournal.com]

Kwlies

[the--owner.livejournal.com]

AARRGGHH - Turkey !

when I was growing up and we wouldgo camping I would take long walks with my brother in the woods to see if we could get lost. Well one occasion some big mutha F&*^ing bird pretty much fell from the sky (trees) and starting running HUGE circles around us. This thing was monsterous (ok at that age it just seemed so). Later on my dads friend told us we were lucky the thing didnt decide to attack us.

I dig the lighthouse, very pretty.

[impossible-girl.livejournal.com]

Wait... let me get this straight: You left Buffalo for...

A PLACE WITH *MORE* SNOW THEN WE HAVE SEEN ALL YEAR????

I have to admit though, the sideyard shot is quite scenic. I'm with everyone else on the turkey assesment. Damn birds. Tasty... but ugly and nasty. I'm not a fan of any birds.

'cept penguins. Penguins are cute. :)

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Now you know why I always laughed when people said we were getting a lot of snow in Buffalo.

[imperfectme.livejournal.com]

I hate birds. *shudder* I'm only okay with them if they're smaller than your average robin AND I don't have to touch them. I'm scarred by having worked with exotic birds at a pet store and a vet's office.

[emulsional.livejournal.com]

There is a teeny tiny part of me that misses snow like that...

[emulsional.livejournal.com]

Haha lucky you. I had the "Yes, Michigan" jingle stuck in my head.

[shyney.livejournal.com]

Aww...One thing I hate about Brisso is no snow :( Looks Nice..ty