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poysntixels
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Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:33 pm Posts: 1587 Location: Spoon River
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 Monster in my yard
 Those of you who are rural can laugh, but a 20-something pound wild turkey is not part of the usual urban landscape. They can eat a ton of bird seed and poop toy poodles. It was 3 feet from my kitchen window. By the time I got my camera, it was moving off. It came back 15 minutes later with its equally large mate. One of them fanned out their enormous wings one half second before the shutter clicked. Bah.
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J.B.
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Joined: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:57 pm Posts: 236 Location: Pasadena, CA
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The closest I want to come to Wild Turkey is in my chilled tumbler. 
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gatchabert
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Joined: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:41 pm Posts: 6389 Location: 415
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 Re: Monster in my yard
I thought you were talking about the pink flamingo...but that was before I read the text.
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Slack
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Joined: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:34 am Posts: 4504
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yum
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bryce_r
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Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:57 am Posts: 7991 Location: SanJose
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Awesome "Kaiju".
jk..seems like everybody these days calls toys and what not 'kaiju'.
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Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:51 pm Posts: 5615 Location: PDX
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 Re: Monster in my yard
Wow! A few years back a pheasant showed up in our yard. It was just chillin out eating blackberries! I had no idea that they actually lived in the area - had never seen one before. I called out to my wife to check out the "fancy chicken" in our yard! Ha! And now our neighbor up the street actually has fancy chickens (not pheasants). And they get out all the time and walk around the neighborhood.
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Greasebat
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Joined: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:48 pm Posts: 2415 Location: NE OHIO
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I went probably my whole life never seeing a wild turkey, then a few years ago I saw at least 7 of them one summer...bizarre. Most of them were in suburban parks..
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poysntixels
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Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:33 pm Posts: 1587 Location: Spoon River
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 Re: Monster in my yard
An' ta think they developed from dinosaurs...
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| Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:21 am |
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fel9
Fresh Meat
Joined: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:52 am Posts: 24 Location: Atlanta
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We don't get many Turkeys here in urban Atlanta, but my wife and I have had a mated pair of Turkey vultures build a nest (if you can call it that) on top of an old freestanding chimney on our property for the past four years....We have named them Frida and Diego...Let me tell you a full sized Turkey Vulture swooping a few inches over your head while cutting the grass feels like you are being buzzed by a 747...real life kaiju indeed...
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UnderBeit
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Joined: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:46 pm Posts: 497 Location: Nowhere Good
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The flamingo looks frightened as well.
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poysntixels
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Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:33 pm Posts: 1587 Location: Spoon River
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Turkey vultures are cool; very primitive looking. Good luck to have 'em nesting there! Cool names too. As long as they don't dive bomb you and the vehicles, heh. Wear a hat! And yes, the flamingo is frightened!
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fel9
Fresh Meat
Joined: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:52 am Posts: 24 Location: Atlanta
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poysntixels wrote: Turkey vultures are cool; very primitive looking. Good luck to have 'em nesting there! Cool names too. As long as they don't dive bomb you and the vehicles, heh. Wear a hat! And yes, the flamingo is frightened! It is a bit ominous to walk out to the mailbox and see a big old vulture on the peak of your house squawking at you. Yeah they seem to fight a lot, but they always come back...so Diego and Frida...Oddly enough they aren't that messy, at least no more so than the pigeons that I am constantly running off... In addition to the vultures we also have falcons that live somewhere nearby. My wife and I have seen them while we are walking in the park that is just down the street...
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