Two DOZEN wild turkeys just strolled through my yard!

[lastlib]

The biggest flock I've ever seen here. Last year, I saw a flock of 20, but there were more this time. It was really cool to see so many! They're not especially common in this part of Missouri (just outside Kansas City), although a couple of our county parks have big flocks. This is the most I've seen outside of those.

[Goonch]

1. ;-{)........

[MontanaMama]

2. How exciting!

I love wild turkeys. They’re so smart. People often think the aren’t but the really are intelligent birds.

[Attilatheblond]

3. Did the neighbor dogs go beserk? My aunt lived outside K.C. in that beautiful part of the country.

In the tiny MT prairie town we used to live in (population around 200), there were 4 'town deer' and about 60 turkeys. The deer generally stayed together and one even sported a big red dog collar one of the caring kids put on her to alert visiting hunters not to shoot a citizen of town.

Now, those turkeys.... yeah, those guys. LOL They divided themselves into 3 very territorial gangs. Walking anywhere in town often put one in a situation of crossing paths with the big birds. If one gang was going on an east west dirt road and another was crossing its path on a north south alley.... trouble

Dogs would bark from the safety of their fenced yards, but NEVER when they were being walked outside their yards. The dogs were pretty terrified of those turkey gangs.

[young_at_heart]

4. We have them occasionally

But not that many!

[Nittersing]

5. They're now common in my old home town... 10 minutes outside of NYC!

We did not have turkeys roaming about when I was growing up. There are now deer wandering thru town as well!

I'm guessing it just took them this long to figure out how to survive in suburbia.

[byronius]

6. Here in Davis we have many flocks.

They’re protected and monitored by a wildlife vet. I love them, and would be extremely vindictive toward anyone threatening them.

Very few Republicans live in this town.

[Polly Hennessey]

7. I will see three or four but never twenty.

A true gathering of wild turkeys 🦃 what a marvelous sight.

[Walleye]

8. I've only ever seen one here in Delaware. Standing under my birdfeeder one morning. My friend in New Mexico has a whole

A whole flock she feeds all the time.

[Nigrum Cattus]

9. wow, that's a lot of whiskey !

[ToxMarz]

10. They are common around here, though they generally aren't greeted very enthusiastically

more of a collective groan.

[progressoid]

11. Yeah.

We have to watch where we step due to a LOT of ... ahem ... droppings.

[orleans]

12. geese. it starts out with four or six or 8

but they grow in number as the weather warms

last year i counted 25 or 30 hanging out in the side yard.

goose poop can be a problem when it's everywhere

[LoisB]

13. Wow. That must have been amazing.

[ihaveaquestion]

14. I live in a medium sized Oregon city and they are pretty common...

mainly in and around a few city parks. One flock even has a few peacocks joining them.

[Maj. Dude]

15. The title got me a bit.

I thought that a pic of agents was going to be driving by.

Happy Valentine's Day All.

[applegrove]

16. There are suddenly lots of wild turkeys in Ontario too.

I saw some in a residential area a few months ago.