Loyalist Dave
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Well for the past couple of weeks I've been blessed to see some new critters. So far I've seen five fawn, one of which was about a week old based on its size, and the fact that it scampered toward me when it saw me walking down the hiker/biker path in the park. It took a long look at me then wandered off..., couldn't spot the doe. Then there were three fawns I saw at a distance on several different days. One must've been only a few hours old as it was tiny, BUT it was running around without any awkwardness, so I figured close to a day old. 
Then this past Tuesday morning, I was driving South on the way to work, and due to a traffic back-up, I took a short-cut through a neighborhood that backs up to County park land, so turned East. Just after turning, about a block away was this huge bird walking across the roadway. Now the sun was in my eyes, and we get hungry buzzards that will sometimes land and open up a bag of trash, but this wasn't the right shape for a buzzard, 'though it was "buzzard sized". I stopped and looked, and it turned around and walked back into the tree line.
So I slowly drove past, and she was still there, a hen turkey and half a dozen poults; the poults were a bit larger than a quail. So that made my day as wild turkey in my area is pretty scarce, and of course the new deer mean a continuation of good deer hunting in my area for the next few years too.
LD
Then this past Tuesday morning, I was driving South on the way to work, and due to a traffic back-up, I took a short-cut through a neighborhood that backs up to County park land, so turned East. Just after turning, about a block away was this huge bird walking across the roadway. Now the sun was in my eyes, and we get hungry buzzards that will sometimes land and open up a bag of trash, but this wasn't the right shape for a buzzard, 'though it was "buzzard sized". I stopped and looked, and it turned around and walked back into the tree line.
So I slowly drove past, and she was still there, a hen turkey and half a dozen poults; the poults were a bit larger than a quail. So that made my day as wild turkey in my area is pretty scarce, and of course the new deer mean a continuation of good deer hunting in my area for the next few years too.
LD
