Friday, April 09, 2010

Strutting Season: Eastern Wild Turkeys

With rapidly moving storms passing thru our area overnight temperatures dropped dramatically. Gusty winds accompanied today’s dawn so I scrubbed my plans to pursue waterfowl with the boat and instead met up with Willard for a morning of photographing the local Wild Turkey activity.




The Turkey breeding season is in full swing and we were treated to a good encounter with a flock of strutting gobblers at close range. The light could have been better but a close-in encounter with mature strutting gobblers always makes for a memorable event.

12 comments:

  1. Hi Coy,
    Even if the light was not perfect the picture is.. Gorgeous to see so many of them behaving! Well done!

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  2. I think this looks pretty good.Have a great weekend.
    Blessings,Ruth

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  3. This is an impressive group of turkeys! Looks like the one in the middle is in charge! Great shot!

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  4. Those are just beautiful, Coy.

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  5. Coy, I am glad that you were able to get such a good image. I also learned from you that this is their season as well, thus I shall be on the look-out from my area. Have a super weekend~

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  6. What an awesome capture Coy. they are certainly strutting their stuff.

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  7. A nice capture of those strutting Toms. I see that you've changed your format for your Blog. Nice change. Looks real good.

    Les

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  8. That's a great clutch of turkeys! I can only hope to see the same! Well done.

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  9. Ooooh, terrific capture! They are awesome birds.

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  10. Beautiful capture! Like an Indian headdress... stunning. Those near our home several weeks ago did not perform as these, but we were entertained with their repeated 'gobble' to a friend across the fence.

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  11. Now these birds are very familiar to me. While I don't have a decent photo of them, I do see lots of them in my yard.

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  12. Oh W.O.W.!!! What an amazing image! Everything about this is outstanding, my friend.

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Coy