Turkey Tease-Turkey and the Mirror

The other day, we watched the flock of visiting turkeys feed from our back yard. One was obsessed with its reflection in the window of the pickup truck cap in our far back yard. So we added a mirror against a stump to check its reaction. It was a load of laughs yesterday as one strutted around pecking at the mirror. Last evening, a deer showed up and was casually munching on the back yard goodies. Then the deer saw its reflection in the mirror and it jumped and took off running at full speed. Hence the term, it "high-tailed it outta there!"

Today, the turkey humorist returned and was so enthralled with its reflection, it pranced around for about half an hour, even after the rest of the flock vanished to the far back of the lot. The turkey ruffed up its feathers, pranced around, pecked at the image in the mirror, and tried to attack the reflection turkey from behind. It could not figure how the other turkey (in the mirror) would disappear when it went behind the mirror or stump.

I am only sending a couple of pictures as I haven't had time to pick the best ones from the 750 or so digital pictures I took today.

Have fun!

Happy Thanksgiving to All

Linwood & Nancy Wickett

Stratham, NH