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Backyard Friends

JFD12 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:02:51 GMT

Sharing some pictures that I took today in my yard. It is cold and rainy and windy here just outside of Boston. Pictures aren't that great ... lol... sorry if the background looks a mess! 😬 Springtime hasn't arrived yet!

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Q-Checker — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:17:27 GMT

Fabulous!

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Desert Lily — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:22:33 GMT

Great pics!

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haddon9 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:24:00 GMT

Beautiful photos!!

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foxywoods — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:46:21 GMT

wow those turkeys are something! we have them running through our yard sometimes.

I see:

Yellow Finches breeding pair

Mr. Cardinal

Downy Woodpecker.

we have:

Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal

Red Finch breeding pairs

Red bellied Woodpecker

Titmouse

Juncoes

Nuthatches

Sparrows

Mourning Doves

Squirrels who are chewing into the squirrelproof feeder but they are hungry too.

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JFD12 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:49:23 GMT

@foxywoods Love it! Yes... we have so much more... I just haven't been out back much yet... it hasn't really warmed up yet here! I promise to post better pictures once the weather is better. 🤗

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foxywoods — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:58:50 GMT

@JFD12 with the overly hot/ warm days last week and today's rain the backyard is all green! the last 2 weeks of April and first week of May... my favorite time of year. Thank you for the pics! I tried but I can't get mine to post.

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San Antonio Gal — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:02:57 GMT

Nice pics @JFD12 !

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JFD12 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:35:48 GMT

Update! 🤪 As is the case for us, the weather changes constantly and does what it wants! The sun popped up at like 7pm and is now setting. Had to take another picture! 🤗 🌞

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Blondie59 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:40:00 GMT

Gorgeous pictures, and agree this is the best time of year. Our garden has popped up, and although I don't have the menagerie you do, I have noticed cardinals, blue jays and of course, robins. Thanks for sharing your photos, they are beautiful.

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on the bay — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:51:06 GMT

Wow! These pictures are great @JFD12!

Those turkeys are something!

I hope they waddle away during november

I love watching all the wildlife that come by-all kinds of birds, used to have 2 bunnies that visited every day and 2 doves and a family of wrens, now a family of cardinals. Even a possum once and a baby bunny under my chair. Sometimes deer.

Lately though there aren't as many, mostly birds and squirrels

and I don't know why. I miss the regulars and hope they just relocated. They are all such a joy to watch.

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Mz iMac — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:17:06 GMT

@JFD12 Fantastic photos.

All those male turkeys in full bloom must be mating season where you reside.

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JFD12 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:23:09 GMT

@Mz iMac And everyone who liked the photos! Thank you! 🤗 Yes, with the turkeys, we have them in our yard constantly, we have them at my work year round (same city) but I am not so sure I've seen them this colorful?! Hubby said the same thing you did about mating! You're both probably correct! 🦃

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shoesnbags — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:48:58 GMT

@JFD12 Who needs background when you have such colorful wildlife? Great pics!!

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JFD12 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:51:10 GMT

@shoesnbags ❤️🤗 Thank you! It will soon look so much better out there! 😊

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Kachina624 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:05:39 GMT

@JFD12. Wow, you do some impressive, big-time bird watching. Do those turkeys become aggressive?

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JFD12 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:15:22 GMT

Hi @Kachina624 🩷 Thank you! No, I really do not do like... serious bird watching ... they are just out in my yard. I will go out there and just zoom my phone, occasionally, and when the birds land on the feeder, I take their picture. The turkeys have never, ever been aggressive towards me. I would feed them ... they come towards me and I would toss them food. 😂 My neighbor calls me Snow White ... lol... food for all the animals! She doesn't like them very much! 🤪 I sure do!

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DSD2 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:20:26 GMT

Such vibrant, beautiful colors.

Amazing pictures as always @JFD12

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Venezia — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:30:47 GMT

@Kachina624 - I can't answer for the OP, but I'm in New England and it's definitely mating season for wild turkeys. We have them in our backyard, front lawn, all around the house and fields every day.

I've taken video to send to a friend of the males - quite impressive, when they're strutting around trying to attract the females. We usually have about 20 or more babies by early summer. And then young adults by fall. They never leave; just go into the woods behind our house when winter hits.

I put out bird seed and all the turkeys show up to help themselves!

They're not aggressive at all. Quite the opposite; they'll run/fly off, if they see you getting near them. I love seeing them.

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Venezia — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:34:11 GMT

@JFD12 - Great photos. We have the same birds and wildlife.

The only thing I'm not happy to see returning is the groundhog determined to make its home under my front steps! Every time I think I've gotten rid of one or two or three (I have a humane trap and relocate them; never kill them), another one shows up.

The most recent arrived yesterday.