Monday, August 4, 2008

This is the group of Wild Turkeys that I was looking for when I came across the fawn that I posted a pic of last Monday. When I first found the turkeys it was still raining and very dark in the woods. The pics I took didn’t come out very well at all. Later in the day, the skies cleared and so I thought I might try to find the turkeys again. After searching for only about twenty minutes I found them in a clearing that borders my neighbors property. Finding wildlife is rarely that easy. I was lucky, pure and simple.

This group is comprised of a hen and her young, which are called poults. I counted six babies but my neighbor had counted seven a week before. It could be that I missed one in the woods but it could also be that one was lost to predators. There is a fox living in the area as well as several hawks. JK