Some Winter Turkeys

I caught some of the local wildlife on camera from my truck, so I thought it was a good idea to share them with you. I hope both of our versions of good ideas match. These turkeys are pretty easy to get when they're out. All I had to do was stop the truck and start shooting.

I wish I could show you the full size of this flock. There must be about three dozen turkeys in it. It depends on the day how many I see. At times I only get to see about half a dozen, but at other times I see the whole flock.

 

These turkeys live at the edge of Sioux City, about at the area where the city turns into country. They mostly like to roam around in the cemetery where some of my family are buried. The cemetery and these turkeys are one of the first things my aunt showed me when I first moved here.

She was telling me that she thought it was a nice thought that maybe some of the people who were buried in the cemetery were reincarnated into these turkeys. She even named some of them after people she knew. She doesn't really believe it, but she said it's fun to think about it that way.

Even though I've known my aunt my whole life, I didn't know her very well until I moved here. I only ever got to visit here once every several years. Now she's one of my favorite family members. I think of her little story whenever I see these turkeys.

On one of my previous posts a month or two ago I said I thought I saw turkey vultures flying around the area where these turkeys live. It was kind of dark and I couldn't see them very well. They were flying only about as high as the tree tops.

I'm now sure that I was completely wrong. Turkey vultures leave this area for the winter, so it could not have been them. It had to be these turkeys that were flying around so skillfully. I never knew turkeys could fly so well. They were simply flying into the trees so they could get some sleep.

One of these days I'll get a few pictures of the whole flock of these turkeys. And I'll get some pictures of them in the trees, and maybe even flying. I pass by there quite often. Just yesterday I had to stop my truck as several of them were crossing the road.

There are many different flocks of turkeys in the area, but this is the one I see the most. Maybe I'll go out one of these times and look for some of the others. I'd be interested to know where they live. There are so many wild places here that I may never find out. I'll still look though because I like turkeys. I'll talk to you later.

Posing Horses

For once I found some animals that were willing to cooperate with me and my camera. These horses were willing to pose perfectly and look right into the camera. After I got these pictures I now wait for all the animals to do this.

For those of you who don't know, the horses are standing in a cornfield. The reason the corn plants around them look like they do is because this is what they look like after the corn has been harvested. Then the farmers put the animals there because they love to eat what's left over of the corn plants.

The amount of snow you see in these pictures is deceptive. We really don't have this much snow. Even this particular cornfield has much less snow since I took these pictures. We even had a small snowstorm yesterday, but we still have nothing to show for it.

I drove by these horses a few more times since I took these pictures and they seem to be multiplying. I would swear that there were only three horses when I got the pictures, but now there are about seven. That third horse wasn't being cooperative, so I have two pictures. I'll talk to you later.