It's almost TURKEY day!!

It's almost TURKEY day!!

My sketch in watercolor crayon of the wild turkey

Occasionally around here you will see wild turkeys. At our old house years ago a wild turkey landed in our yard, It was a huge bird and it was very debatable whether it would be able to take off and fly before the dogs got it. It has a very slow take off ability and then only flew up to the nearest branch to be safe. I took the dogs in and eventually the turkey went on it's way.

Turkeys are very interesting birds,.

Here's a quiz for you with the answers below

What is a male turkey called? What is a female turkey called?

What is a young female turkey called? What is a young male turkey called.

Here are the answers: gobbler, hen, jenny, jake.

How fast can a turkey fly?

It seems they can fly for short distances at 55 miles an hour. Although who figured that one out I don't know. They can run up to 19miles and hour. Again I have no knowledge who timed them.

Maybe it was someone who needed one for Thanksgiving.

It seems that due to good practices and conservation we now have approx 7 million of the birds that live in the American woodlands but these are NOT for eating at Thanksgiving. They are like the presidential turkey who gets a pardon and lives his life out at a sanctuary. This was a tradition started by Benjamin Franklin when his son had a favorite pet turkey called Jack.