I didn't want to hijack the darling parrot in the bird feeder thread, but this was crazy enough to mention.

There are a lot of wild turkeys in Marin County, but I have never seen any in Mill Valley until a few weeks ago when I had to wait for one to get out of the road a few streets down. Then last night, suddenly, they were in our canyon somewhere gobbling like crazy. This morning, they seemed even closer. Indeed they were. We came upstairs to find one on our deck rail - 3 stories off the ground (we're on a downslope lot).

Hard to see him through the screen door, but here he is on the deck rail.



He proceeded to spend some time on our roof as well, all the while talking to his compatriot who was down in the canyon.