Not chicken scratch, turkey tracks. About two weeks apart, we discovered a flock of 40 turkeys in the same section of Alpine Loop. A recent snowfall made it a lot cooler than we were prepared for-the valley-dwellers that we are.
But finding this flock was worth it. The Tom strutted blue & red faced out in the middle of the road and their tracks were easier to photograph than they were...
Still, it's fun to see something so very wild, just living naturally. There's just something so exciting about finding something in the world that has always been there, yet never personally witnessed on this scale before. This South Carolina Cooperative Extension website was very informative on them. In the flock we saw only one mature Tom, but there must have been more as this was a winter flock still banded together. (Tom tail up in left third of picture between 2 trees)
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