A Turkey has been hanging around our yard with just four poults. I've been watching them since they were not much bigger than tennis balls. At first I thought they were going to be easy prey for our brazen coyotes, who come quite close even in daylight, or the foxes, who chase chickens and house cats, but these birds learn to fly when they're still quite small.
Nevertheless, mom keeps them close. I can often tell where the little family is from the soft call-and-response music they make as they forage together in the deep undergrowth or out in the tall goldenrod. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
