Turkey tale

[fbhjr]

As I’ve written about several times, a band (herd, flock, pod, ?) of wild
turkeys lives near the building in which I work.
They are most often seen about sun up, when they go out looking for food,
and about sun down when they go back in the woods for the night.

Yesterday afternoon I went down to the break room at the end of the
building for a snack. The head of finance/HR was there and complaining
that everybody talked about the turkeys, but he never got to see them.

“You want to see them?” I asked.
I crumbled up the cookie I was eating and opened the back door to the
breakroom.
“Hey turkeys!” I called and threw the cookie bits out onto the lawn.
Three turkeys came out of the woods and began eating the cookie bits.

(One was apparently a cookie snob. When it found it was an oatmeal raisin
cookie it spit it back out. The other two were not so particular and
gladly ate that and the other bits.)

“Wow,” the finance guy said. “But, I thought they’d be more.”
“Come with me,” I said.

I led him out the door and over to the side of the building. A couple of
dozen other turkeys were in the drainage ditch behind the building.
I threw more cookies.
They responded as all scavenging birds do and came closer to the food.
The finance guy backed away. The turkeys came closer.

“Aren’t you worried about them,” he said of the fairly large birds pecking
cookie crumbs now almost within reach of me.

“They think they are velociraptors,” I said. “But, I KNOW they are next
week’s dinner.”
I stepped towards the turkeys and they ran back down the hill.

It is all bluff of course. I’m far too lazy to want to pull out all of
those feathers.
I’ll buy my turkey in the store this weekend.
But, they don’t know if I’m lazy or not…

Comments

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Besides, I bet they're all tough and gamey.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

That's awesome ;)

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

:D

Turkeys…Such goobers.

The other advantage to store bought? Guts are already removed.

Having worked in wildlife care and been in the Necropsy room….Fowl entrails are particularly nasty. Eagles and large seabirds are also pretty bad.
well, yeah of course, rotting flesh isn't a pleasant smell to begin with

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

HA HA HA!

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

*thanks your wife for making you share this*

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Hehehe.

My great aunt used to raise turkeys for thanksgiving, and one year they decided to roost/rest on our car and would not let us into it no matter how much we shooed or chased until finally my aunt fired her rifle into the ground.