I hate to “step on” my own post, but I have to share these pics! Do any of you need a turkey for Thanksgiving? Come on over!
I woke up today to a city of ice — it drizzled all night in below freezing temps. While on the phone to Surly (of course! 😉 ), I noticed a whirl in my peripheral vision — the turkeys had descended! We have been overrun with turkeys in our community, and in our neighborhood specifically. We have a huge crabapple tree that holds its fruit throughout the winter, and the turkeys have found it.
They look like vultures and are WAY too big for the tree!! Yikes!
I have never seen anything quite like that! Yikes! They look huge (and a little scary!)
Comment by Barb — November 21, 2010 @ 2:19 pm
Hey, just wait until those babies ferment, then drunk turkeys are the funniest things to watch.
Comment by Elizabeth Risch — November 21, 2010 @ 3:21 pm
How funny, love the pics!! 🙂
Comment by Bets — November 21, 2010 @ 3:23 pm
They are adorable! I wish they would come to my yard. But it seems pretty unlikely.
Comment by joanna — November 21, 2010 @ 4:39 pm
That’s pretty amazing.Looks like you’re the only who has them.
Comment by Beverly — November 21, 2010 @ 8:49 pm
One recommendation – don’t let bird seed spill into a garden you don’t want scratched up. Those guys will do a real number on it. Of course, we could use them for some tilling by sprinkling seed on a garden we needed worked up, but I’m afraid they wouldn’t know when to stop!
Comment by twinsetellen — November 21, 2010 @ 10:07 pm
I’ll take 2 please. Dressed and ready for the oven would be nice.
I’ve only had encounters of the road-kind with wild turkeys. One looked big enough to throw a saddle on. Thankfully, my car and the turkeys lived to see another day. Are they as messy as geese?
Comment by 2muchfun — November 22, 2010 @ 7:18 am
Our synagogue is sited on a long, skinny strip of wooded land, with more across the way, and the wild turkeys wander around the neighborhood this time of year. We, too, have crabapple trees, two of them pruned into sorta giant mushroom shapes. A whole flock of turkeys will flap up — slo-mo, funniest darn thing to watch that clumsy, aerodynamic feat — and roost on them to feast. The whole tree ends up covered with turkeys wooloowooloo-ing at everyone who walks by (trying to stay upright whilst rotfl). Then they flap down, one by one, and wander off into the woods in a wobbly single line. Great way to waste a morning. Prayer? Nah, we got turkeys to watch. “I thank you god for this most amazing day.”
Comment by Suzan — November 22, 2010 @ 9:45 am
Oh Suzan, I love your prayer on a turkey day — surely we ought to appreciate such hilarious creatures.
I do think crab-apple stuffed turkey sounds delicious.
Comment by Pam — November 22, 2010 @ 2:38 pm
I LOVE it that you have wild turkeys in your trees! Awesome!
In other news — if you’re feeling in the mood to give free advice, I’ve run into a spot of trouble with my Kauni Cardigan.
I cut the steeks for the armholes and picked up stitches for the sleeves. I’ve started to knit one sleeve, and have noticed that the body of the sweater is all lumpy where the sleeve joins the armhole. The leftover fabric from the steek doubled under against itself in the body of the sweater and now there’s a double layer on the shoulder and all around the armhole. It forms an unsightly bulge and the sleeve looks like it’s way too small for the armhole (even though I picked up exactly the number of stitches required by the pattern).
How do you fix this? I’ve never done a steek before. Do you just carefully sew each armhole stitch really solidly to the sleeve and then cut off every last little smidgeon of leftover fabric?
Or do you sew the leftover steek fabric down into the sleeve so that it doesn’t double over itself and bulge out weirdly all around the shoulder?
Comment by victoria — November 22, 2010 @ 3:24 pm
We had a few wild turkeys near our last house. I was usually ready to spy any kind if wildlife, especially those dreaded white-tails. The turkey that swooped toward the car scared the bee-jeebers out of me. Slow and clumsy. Then sat in the tree laughing their heads off about it.
Comment by Denise — November 22, 2010 @ 6:07 pm
Can you imagine the work to get that bird to table?
Comment by Brenda — November 22, 2010 @ 6:21 pm
What a beautiful photo! Turkeys are always freaky because they are so BIG!
Comment by Cynthia — November 22, 2010 @ 11:21 pm
Makes me miss MN!
Comment by Kathy — November 23, 2010 @ 5:04 pm
There’s nothing more special than to have the wildlife in your yard.
Comment by Janis Straesser — November 23, 2010 @ 7:26 pm
Did it only snow on one side of the street?!?
Comment by Becky — November 23, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
@ Pam: I’d love to take credit for the prayer/quote, but it’s the first -botched quote- line of a poem by e.e. cummings. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/284/ Great stuff!
Comment by Suzan — November 24, 2010 @ 9:49 am
Wow! We have wild turkeys up here in the north woods, but I had no idea they had migrated to the suburbs, too!
Comment by kmkat — November 26, 2010 @ 3:23 am
What terrific photos! What fun!
Comment by Kym — November 26, 2010 @ 11:39 am
What great photos!! I would love to see them fly and roost in a tree like that!
Comment by Lee Cockrum — November 26, 2010 @ 11:59 am