Today, while I was out patrolling for flooding areas, I saw many signs of spring through the blinding white light reflecting off of the snow.
I was driving, and a lot of the sights were wild animals, so I didn't stop to take photos of them, but I saw a beautiful cinnamon bear, hundreds of Canada Geese eating along the edges of some fields that were starting to melt, and some bald eagles along the river.
I also saw one of the strangest sights I've seen in a long time. It was a flock of wild turkeys, which are pretty rare out here, with three white, domestic turkeys mixed in with them. I guess they are all turkeys, but it just looked weird. I suppose they could have been albinos, but what are the odds of three out of twelve birds being albino? Either way, I took it as a good omen and blessed the birds with my smile.
The non-wild animal springy things I saw were frozen culverts, water rushing everywhere and this:
(I didn't bother to name it, but it would have probably been Kelly.)
This has really perked me up, and after I cut down a plum and apricot tree tomorrow we're going to take the boys for a walk somewhere that the snow has receded away from the water. Hopefully the river or Dinosaur Lake, but I'll take just about anything right now.
I'd even go for stroll along a melting ditch.
(Hopefully this isn't what it comes to, but I gotta get my walk on, well more like they do.)
Anyhow, I hope everyone else is optimistic as well. It should be glorious when it gets here.
Why would you cut done fruit trees?
Also the turkeys you seen could have been domesticated, hence the white ones. I have heritage breed that look like wild. Maybe the white ones are there to show that. Kinda like spray painting a cow with the word “COW” so drunk hunters don’t shoot them.
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The trees were planted poorly many years ago and are crowded together under the neighbours trees, so they rarely produce fruit. One apricot doesn't have good tasting fruit and the plum has a disease and they are all beaten pretty bad by the sapsuckers.
I am hoping to save the good apricot tree and possibly graft some of it to the other root stock, but I haven't tried it before, so we will see.
The turkeys could be as you say, but they were miles from any farms or even houses. I was thinking that maybe they escaped years ago and have just been building up a population. The first time I saw a few of them was probably 12 years ago, but there were no white ones.
There isn't even a season to hunt turkey here, so it's kind of weird.
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Well that sucks about the fruit trees. You could always use them for smoking meats. Get a wood chipper and shred them.
Yeah that could be. White turkeys can not reproduce naturally. Their breasts are to large, so they could be on the lamb from a farm.
Still cool, kinda like seeing a zebra in the forest LOL
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My friends take the wood for their smokehouses. I live right in town, so I don't have the room and I imagine the neighbours might complain about the smoke. We are on a 1/6th acre lot across from the grocery store and the medical clinic.
I didn't know that the white turkeys couldn't reproduce. That's interesting.
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I could see how a smoker or smoke house could be a problem. Maybe a smaller one, they have some that are the size of a mini fridge, we have one.
Awesome that a friend will be able to use the wood.
The white ones are what factory farms prefer, they are genetically engineered to grow fast and have large breast meat. That’s what most turkey is in the stores.
I am sure there are albinos, but like you said there are three so most likely they escaped. They travel far, so it’s possable they did come from a farm.
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Awesome, I will go check that out. Thanks a lot for thinking of us.
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No problem 😊
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