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Flock of turkeys
ltcdoty
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What's the most turkeys has anyone seen in one flock. I was driving near Bennington, Vermont today, on my way back home to New York from running errands. In a cornfield I saw what I thought were Canada geese, until I saw the beard on one closest to me.
I pulled over and I quit counting at about eighty-five. I'd have taken a photo, but I still live in the dark ages and don't have a cell phone.
During last Spring's turkey season, I think the most I saw was three. Maybe they were having a convention...
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WOW...I have never seen more than a dozen in a group.....
Eighty-five +...that is a lot of TURKEYS !!!
Had 40 fly over me some years ago along the Current River in Missouri. They came off a bluff on the other side of the river and into a field behind me. Great sight.
I grew up on Current River, camping, fishing, running trot lines with my dad. Good times. Bought a boat and will now be taking the grandkids to do the same.
I regularly see flocks of 200 or more in N. E. Washington where I have built a house and plan to move to soon.
The place is over-run with them. White-tails too! They’re every where. Counted 19 of them on my runway one day. Dead ones in the ditch every 5 miles or so. You learn not to drive very fast and keep a sharp eye out on both sides of the road.
A few years ago I was driving a back road around here. Some turkeys crossed the road in front of me, so I stopped and watched them. They were going to join the rest of them. They were covering the field. I started counting and got to 50 and figured that was almost half of them. I was thinking there were over 100 in that bunch.
Sitting outside about 15 or 20 of them will fly over my head, from the mountain behind me, across the road to about the middle of the mountain on the other side of the road. One of them was REAL low. The face of the guy in the little car would have been a good picture when that turkey "almost" hit his windshield. He must had gotten a full wingspread picture inches from his windshield. Squeeling tires and all. came to a complete stop, he probably had to change his shorts when he got home.
I used to hike along the Missouri River in an area around Parkville, MO. Limestone bluffs covered in woods right along the river made for some excellent viewing of several flocks of turkeys, mostly in the spring. Fortunately the turkeys stayed up on the bluffs while the road traffic was down lower along the river. Once I got up on top of the bluffs and moved back from the edge, it got much more quiet and peaceful. I posted some photographs here from that time period a few years ago. I miss those walks.
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The first couple of years we lived here we a flock of about 75 birds, but they disappeared and now we only see 3 or 4 at a time. Not sure if it is due to a few very wet Springs, disease, or poachers, but it's disappointing.
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A flock of about 200 was photographed up near Cimmaron, NM a few days ago.
A few years ago in a winter wheat field I seen turkeys enough that I tried to count them. I counted over 150 and quit due to traffic. The field was a rolling terrain so some birds where hidden from my view. I'm sure there were 200+ birds there but I didn't get an accurate count. This was only a 40-50 acre field.
I'm sure this was many smaller flocks that had been drawn there for the food resource so not one large flock.