So Wednesday late afternoon I’m in my kitchen when Liam sudden calls to me from the living room. As I look up, I see him walking from the living room to the dining room.
“Mum! You have to see this. IT’S. SO. COOL! There are BIG THINGS walking around our BACKYARD!” he said, waving his arms as he walked out of my line of vision toward the sliders that go from the dining room to the back deck.
Big things in our backyard….
I moved very quickly over to one of the kitchen windows.
“HOLY SHIT!” I said.
And this is what I saw.
Ten effing wild turkeys in my backyard. Now we have animals around. My last house we saw 2-3 turkeys and our wooden lot had many deer and foxes. This house, we have bunnies.
Sorry but I am JUST not a wild turkey person… alcoholic or otherwise. I think they are ugly things that can get very territorial. I really didn’t want them deciding my backyard was an ok place to hang out. Ten of them = SCARY SHIT, PEOPLE! Seeing as I am also fearful of squirrels, I don’t have time to become a prisoner of my home! How would I get to Starbucks? What’s that? I’ve never mentioned my fear of squirrels?
Moving on.
So after snapping some pictures… during which they had NO FEAR of me WHATSOEVER… but gave me this rather “Yo what up?” look instead… I went and let my dogs out. Now I know I only have pugs… but pugs think they are big dogs even though they are not. Lily bristles into a fuzzy butterball herself and has this way of bouncing – all four feet up and down at the same time – when she is “defending” her turf or really pissed off.
I didn’t want their eyes to get pecked out so I just let them out in their penned in area… but the turkeys didn’t notice and took off. I don’t know which made me want to throw up more… watching them walk across my yard or watching them fly and roost up on the neighbors houses and trees.
My cousin told me they sleep in trees.
EW!!! FREAKY!!!!
So these turkeys won’t get any pass from me this Thanksgiving… but I’m going to get my turkey at Whole Foods anyway. This gang or rafter of turkeys (thank you, Mo!) was walking to the bus stop this morning… so I’m hoping they find other trees to sleep in tonight.
EW!!!!! FREAKY!!!!!
Filed under: Holidays, Just Susie, Liam, Snaps, Us
Ahhhhhhh! I think I would freak out if I saw those in my backyard. Yikes. We get a lot of deer in my neighborhood. Every time I try to snap a picture, they run off.
Thats awesome! You should catch one for dinner. It’s easy enough to lob off their heads, we use to do it as kids. Just grab em by the feet and swing em around a few times to get them dizzy, then….Well you get the picture.
A few years ago I used to babysit two toddlers. I had them all bundled up and ready to go for a walk. I went to the door and saw a squirrel just sitting about 4 feet from the door. We stayed inside. =)
At least it sparked some blog fodder.
a clear example of why we have turkey for thanksgiving. they’re too dumb to run away, even after all these years of seeing their population plummet in november.
I have a problem with fowl in general. Turkeys. Chickens. Pigeons. All on my black list. They completely freak me out and I think they’re gross. I probably WOULD have become a prisoner in my own home, since I don’t have any dogs. Freaky indeed.
All right, Barney Fife, think about the awesome experience for a minute. And congratulate yourself for taking these pictures. This is a great thing for Liam to have seen. Naaaay—churrr. Repeat after me. You are in a safe place. ;o)
ummm.. am I THAT sheltered in that I just now realized that live turkeys in your backyard look nothing like the cartoony turkeys I have seen my entire life?
really… these guys look nothing like what I thought a turkey would. They look like pigeons on steriods. with red wobbly necks.
also? TOTALLY noting to self to stay the hell away from your backyard in fall. I don’t do nature up close and personal so well.
also x2? That’s a lot of turkeys, dude. seriously!
yeah, that would have freaked me out. especially thinking of them up in the trees at night, waiting for me…
I just showed this to my husband and pointed out that we don’t have (1) a HUGE backyard, (2) pretty leaves changing colors in said backyard, (3) animals wandering through our backyard (unless you count the squirrel we saw on the patio a few weeks ago). I told him we were moving. He just nodded. Yeah, don’t think it’s gonna happen.
That? Just TOTALLY gave me the heebie jeebies. Your fear of squirrels? I could have you beat with my fear of BIRDs. Any kind of bird. With all the pecking. And the flapping. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH.
A little cornbread stuffing and I bet you’ll warm up to those turkeys in no time