my neighbor made the news

Out of season of course, but this is what you would call a real turkey shoot
https://www.wmur.com/article/turkeys-take-over-new-hampshire-backyard-121123/46098710

 

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Wow! A bunch! When I lived in TN, I would see a few but not that many all at once.

 

That's a lot of birds!

And on the subject of turkeys, that station has the most broken video player I've encountered in ages. I couldn't watch the video at all.

 

they "reintroduced" them to the area about 10years ago.. the population has exploded lol

 

It popped up several things before it… then I had the small screen image at bottom so enlarged it. That pop up stuff !!! Grrr!!! lol!

 

Use to see dozens of them in my mothers yard several
years ago. Not as many and not as often lately.
A bigger menace are deer and wild boars. The deer population
needs to be decreased by 90%.

 

Maybe foxes should be reintroduced into the same area.

 

That would be a mistake. Just more problems. How about the neighborhood eating wild Turkey for Christmas this year?

 

@SensibleSal66 I won't eat wild Turkey , but I will gladly
drink Wild Turkey, on the rocks .

 

If that was my land, I would take a turkey a few times per year. It's been a long time but I'm sure I could remember how to clean one.

 

I'm in northern NH and turkeys have been making a come back here for 20 years. There's plenty of them now for sure, maybe I should take up turkey hunting.

 

A fox is not big enough to take down a deer. A rabbit, OK, but not a deer. Even a turkey is too much for a fox. When they spread their wings and hold their ground it’s like a puppy attacking a bus. No chance of success.

Coyotes have a better chance, but coyotes have moved back into our area and deer are hardly affected. You need some nice wolves or mountain lions to stand a chance at regaining a decent predator / prey relationship. (But keep your cats and dogs indoors!)

For those of you who appreciate fine writing, I found this farmer’s journal called Fox vs. Turkey.

 

My backyard in Upstate New York
Counted 19 this summer
Occasionally some deer

 

Just watch True Grit, the scene with the bad guys in the cabin, for a refresher course....

 

We have both and I’ve seen foxes with a turkey in their mouth.

 

Are those deer chasing each other in a circle?

 

Me: Look at that bunch of cows!

She: Herd of cows!

Me: Certainly I heard of cows, there's a bunch of them over there!

(credit: the Marx bros.)

 

They do frolic
Hard to know why

 

I was going to say "it's a mammal thing", then I remembered the snowboarding crows.

 

On my ranch, we see wild turkeys every day … sometimes flocks of 25-50. Coyotes eat them regularly. They’ve moved into nearby towns and are sometimes aggressive toward people. In one town, there was a big debate on how to deal with problem turkeys. For me, the debate is whether to use the Mossberg or Remington. So, the city fathers and mothers hired a professional trapper to catch the turkeys and release them in a “wild” area. So, where did he release them? In an area, where they are heavily hunted.

Cal