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[on the bay]

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.

[Mz iMac]

@JFD12 Fantastic photos. 

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

[JFD12]

@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! 🦃 

[shoesnbags]

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

[JFD12]

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

[Kachina624]

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

[JFD12]

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! 

[DSD2]

Such vibrant, beautiful colors.

Amazing pictures as always @JFD12 

[Venezia]

@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.

[Venezia]

@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.