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BrianC 
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 5:35pm |
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So this lone turkey has been pecking at its reflection in my pickups bumper.
Ongoing on for weeks now. I hear tick, tick look out and it is her again.
All the other turkeys travel in a group, this one is special, all alone.
I can walk up to within 20 feet and it keeps pecking away.
Is this an example of how turkeys got the not so bright rap?
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DiyDave
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 5:52pm |
That, and drowning in a rainstorm, when looking up to see where the rain is coming from... 
Wild Turkey does have the same effect on me, too!
Edited by DiyDave - 16 Aug 2018 at 5:53pm
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 6:08pm |
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Last time I had Wild Turkey was Dallas Texas 1979. Don't remember that night but we did meet some police I hear, but none of us arrested.
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 6:51pm |
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Still have wild turkey on the shelf, not pecking any bumpers, falling off one maybe!
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 7:10pm |
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Must be something wrong with that turkey, maybe a DNR ranger would have an idea what the heck is going on.
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 7:54pm |
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I had a woodpecker peck on an aluminum extension ladder for hours every day for over a week.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 8:31pm |
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I had a woodpecker peck on an aluminum extension ladder for hours every day for over a week. |
He was just advertisin that his pecker was stronger than most...
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 9:09pm |
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we had a wild turkey meet a vehicle the other day...there was parts (both turkey and car parts) scattered all over the highway. lots of plastic and glass and fluids all over! don't think either one survived!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 7:48am |
We spent a couple of winters at the Florida Fly Wheelers. While there we had a Blue Bird that would fight himself in the drivers side rear view mirror, then set on top of it to rest, then back fighting himself. Somewhere I have a picture of it.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:24am |
Very long time ago, we had a robin in the yard that flew up at his reflection in the chrome bumper of a certain car for hours on end, day after day. Fortunately for him, the car wasn't there all the time or I think the dumbass would have starved. Following summer, he came back and went at it again! About the same time frame, there was a cardinal that would perch on my sisters bedroom window ledge, he could see across the room into her dresser mirror, and wanted to fight himself and he'd hammer on that window. He only did it for a little bit at a time. Cardinals smarter than robins? Hmmm...When I lived in OH, had a robin that would perch on the passenger's side of my Thunderbird and do whatever with the side mirror. I thought it was funny until I noticed the crap all over the side of the car....grrrr....Started imagining ways to electrocute the little bugger! I don't know if it's proof turkeys are stupid, but sure gives merit to the phrase "bird brain".
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:26am |
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I hunt Wild Turkeys and have observed traits in them incredibly stupid and very wise not much different than people! I have also observed people inbibing Wild Turkey do incredibly stupid acts! The hen pecking your bumper suffers from an addiction and needs counseling or to find a different focus group! She could also be dinner during fall Turkey season!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:30am |
Wild turkey, yummy! Wild Turkey, not bad.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:45am |
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there ya go....put in for a grant of....say $12,000,000. to study and/or counsel wild turkeys!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 9:00am |
shameless dude wrote:
there ya go....put in for a grant of....say $12,000,000. to study and/or counsel wild turkeys! |
Well,,Shameless,,I don't know,,,next thing they be wantin to put one of them poor things on a threadmill,,,Yikes,,,!!!!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 10:51am |
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For 50,000.00 I will council the bird for 5 hours. By the 6th hour we'll be eating fried turkey breast and gravy.
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Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 2:06pm |
shameless dude wrote:
there ya go....put in for a grant of....say $12,000,000. to study and/or counsel wild turkeys! |
If you get even 1% of that money that will fix my air conditioner and pay the power bill for a long time(even at a temp to make your "special machine" work good). An there are more turkeys than you can count around my yard. They have my wonderful trained to come and add more water to their favorite drink pan,as they don't like the bigger one the deer use.With the big windows no need for you to go out and find out how hot it is unless that is part of your study  .
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 2:09pm |
klinemar wrote:
I hunt Wild Turkeys and have observed traits in them incredibly stupid and very wise not much different than people! I have also observed people inbibing Wild Turkey do incredibly stupid acts! The hen pecking your bumper suffers from an addiction and needs counseling or to find a different focus group! She could also be dinner during fall Turkey season! |
Kind of funny how they go from yard art you cannot chase away to be coming real tricky if somebody shoots at them.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 2:53pm |
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I have seen an aggressive Tom attack his reflection in a real nice restored chevy, completely ruined the paint job, owner was not happy a couple of us tried o convince the turkey to leave but it was going t put its spurs to us so we stepped back. Property owner, not chevy owner, did not want me to shoot it, so we watched it wreck that chevy
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 6:39pm |
desertjoe wrote:
shameless dude wrote:
there ya go....put in for a grant of....say $12,000,000. to study and/or counsel wild turkeys! |
Well,,Shameless,,I don't know,,,next thing they be wantin to put one of them poor things on a threadmill,,,Yikes,,,!!!! |
Already been done, prolly on the taxpayer's dime...
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:11pm |
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We got a hundreds of the darn things around here. I know, this is off topic, They will completely strip a field of buck wheat in no time. There are 17 acres of soybeans across the road, between them and 20-40 deer every night chowing on them, there isn't much left for the combine. The DNR just sends me 30 deer depravation tags every year. I'm gonna take a few pictures of these and see if I can get the same for the darn turkeys.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 8:41pm |
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Well I called the local university about this. They sent out some Euell Gibbons looking guy.
I was thinking they sent Turkey Whisperer. He watches the turkey pecking away. Then he walks back to me and tells me the turkey wants me to plant some buckwheat next year. I go whaaat?? He tells me yes, his Morse code skills are still good, and that turkey says she wants buckwheat.
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Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 9:59am |
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When my wife were on vacation many years ago we went to the Air Force academy and drove around the wildlife loop they had at that time and we were watching a Tom turkey and all of a sudden he takes the notion to go after the exhaust pipe on F250 diesel. He is pecking at it and strutting for it. I was within 5 or 6 feet of him and got some great pictures Not sure where the pictures are now but it was funny to watch.
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