Month: October 2008

On the way to pay another visit to Mike & Kathy's backyard, we drove near a lake in southwestern Indiana and came across these beautiful wild turkeys. I'd never seen any before. They are very large, and incredibly graceful in flight. No wonder Ben Franklin chose them as his pick for the national bird. This group had three birds. Later, we saw a larger flock of about ten or twelve turkeys. We took this photo of the largest one from the first group.  As we got closer it led the other two in flight to the nearest (safe) tree. Mike said they were virtually extinct around here a few years ago, but a local group of volunteers worked to bring them back. And they have. (more…)...