gsganzer
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- Joined
- Jun 11, 2003
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- Location
- Denton, TX
- Tractor
- L3800 w/FEL and BH77, BX 2200 w/FEL and MMM
I was sitting in a deer blind in central TX this morning. Right as the deer feeder went off at 7am, about 30 wild turkeys, which must have been roosting nearby, came in like a flashmob hitting a California department store. They came in flying and running in one giant swarm and proceeded to scamper around picking up the corn like a flock of chickens on scratch grains. Fighting one another until every last kernel was gone.
Then the darndest thing happened, the entire flock fell asleep! It was like they all put themselves in a food coma, like the rest of us do at Thanksgiving. Standing there with heads under their wings, heads on their backs, standing, laying down and roosting on nearby branches or on the feeder itself. They all napped for about 20-30 minutes and then slowly started waking up.
When they had all finally awoke, they just wandered off as a group to somewhere else in the pasture.
It was one of the wildest things I've ever seen. I'm still in disbelief.
Then the darndest thing happened, the entire flock fell asleep! It was like they all put themselves in a food coma, like the rest of us do at Thanksgiving. Standing there with heads under their wings, heads on their backs, standing, laying down and roosting on nearby branches or on the feeder itself. They all napped for about 20-30 minutes and then slowly started waking up.
When they had all finally awoke, they just wandered off as a group to somewhere else in the pasture.
It was one of the wildest things I've ever seen. I'm still in disbelief.