Spring Turkeys

[SangRaal]

This morning we had a turkey war outside our kitchen door

[SangRaal]

The 2 toms in the first pic showed up to strut for a group of females who were eating flyer food mix that we put out for migrating and then nesting Ducks(you can see our still mostly frozen pond in the background of pic #2). A second group of 4 or 5 smaller Toms showed up and the 2 original Toms beat the crap out of them lots of gobbling flying feathers etc.

[francois]

I like the first one, the bold colors of the turkeys attracts the eye, well done. The second is aesthetically less pleasing, there's a bit of a confusion but it's a nice version of birds ballet [or more probably kickboxing].

[NancyP]

Very nice. Although the scrum photo is not as aesthetically pleasing as the two toms photo, behavior is always interesting to see. Yep, kickboxing is a good analogy.

[Arlen]

Nicely done. We've had a flock of wild turkeys in our area (western Oregon) for the last couple of years, and I have to say that yours are a lot more photogenic than ours.