Turkeys!

[Kano]

Wow. They are so shy where we are from. We have to kneel down and just peek our eyes over the windowsills to watch them, because from 200 feet away at the verge of the woods, they will see us in the window and immediately vanish into the trees.

Sounds like you may be lucky that your turkeys are shy:

http://wcco.com/pets/white.bear.lake.2.686749.html

Karen in Boise

[bikerHen]

How cool!
We had a roaming band of wild turkeys here, they wandered through this one neighborhood and everybody loved them...then they got bold and started chasing cats/dogs/and finally people. The Dept. of Natural Resources had to come and get them since they were chasing people down the street.

We had a big ol' tom turkey attack our car when we stop to let him cross the road. We had to wait it out cause he was right in front of the car. Honking only seemed to get him madder. He finally gave up when another car came up the road from the other direction. bikerHen

[OakLeaf]

We had a big ol' tom turkey attack our car when we stop to let him cross the road. We had to wait it out cause he was right in front of the car. Honking only seemed to get him madder. He finally gave up when another car came up the road from the other direction. bikerHen

See, our wildlife is just different.

I came home one time and there was a big snapping turtle halfway up my driveway, right in the crest between the wheel tracks. At least 14" in diameter and tall enough, with the crown of the driveway, that there was no driving over him. I honked at him. He ignored me. I got out of the car and yelled at him. He ignored me. I got a 3/4" diameter stick and poked him with it. He bit the end of it off.

At that point I gave up, got my stuff out of the car and walked the rest of the way to the house (1/4 mile, in my dress shoes, in gravel, up a steep hill, but hey at least it wasn't beach sand and my heels weren't that high ).

DH didn't even believe me when he asked where the car was. He had to walk back down and see it for himself.

[short cut sally]

I live in the country so turkeys do venture in the field behind our house, along with pheasants. I have never had a turkey stop at my feeder though. That would be so cool. I have been startled by the boogers though while riding. they sounded like a helicopter taking off with all the wings a flappin'..i don't know who left a bigger pile me or the turkey

[Crankin]

We have a flock (?) of turkeys in my neighborhood. They live on top of the hill, under a water tower that is up there. When we first moved here, I was riding down the hill when one decided to cross the street in front of me. I was scared to death (it stopped) mostly because I didn't know what it was at first. They are HUGE and fairly ugly, too.
I have seen a few of them fly, very awkwardly, to the top of the trees and rest there for awhile.

[Geonz]

How cool!

We had a roaming band of wild turkeys here, they wandered through this one neighborhood and everybody loved them...then they got bold and started chasing cats/dogs/and finally people. The Dept. of Natural Resources had to come and get them since they were chasing people down the street.

Yup, and it got the Mayor a gift of a bottle of Wild TUrkey at one point... I saw them a few times out riding, but they didn't come after me. They had gone after some folks, though on bikes it didn't matter.