We live a few miles off the interstate and just recently they began MAJOR re-construction of our exit. For the next three years or so…it’s gonna be a mess. Traffic has already been impacted, minutes will be robbed from our day, and I’ll probably get a little twitchy…. If salvation was "losable", mine would be lost in snarled traffic and to idiot poor drivers.
The bright side? At least there’s an alternate route. It’s curvy, hilly, and meanders past two dozen neighborhoods, but at least traffic moves. And we pass, oddly enough, a small pasture with llamas and goats.
Friday, we DID come to an abrupt halt to our utter surprise and to my alligator chasin’ snake charmin’ animal lovin’ delight.
A gang posse (I’m not kidding) rafter of wild turkeys was crossing the road! The only camera I had was my cell phone, so of course I slammed the car into park, flipped open the phone and did my best to get a picture; the above is the best I could do.
It really did look like a prison break–single file, an orderly dismissal, and like they had somewhere reeal important to go. I didn’t know turkeys could run so fast!
Or maybe, just maybe, they knew when they were "invited" to dinner, they were going to be seated at the head of the table ;).
Gees what a bunch of turkeys! Why didn’t they use the zebra crossing?
So, did you leap out and catch one for your thanksgiving dinner?
I seriously doubt that anything could top the snake wrangling.
Even dinner making a timely escape.
We’ve been seeing a lot of turkeys here in northern Illinois, too.
Rafters and rafters of ’em!
That beats the flock of about fifty geese I saw crossing the road of a suburban neighborhood this summer! 😉
You commented on my blog that you didn’t know how I’d found your blog…I’ve been here many times under another name. I’m the one who knew who the “Catch Me If You Can” man was in your photo a while back. 😉 Real life circumstances forced deleting my other blog and changing my “identity.”
How very appropriate of the turkeys to make a Thanksgiving appearance! Great pic for a camera phone!
LOL!! when I was in Key West, I saw a chicken crossing the road and the same thought popped in my head…Why DID the chicken cross the road!
That is so great! We have visits from four raccoons and one possum eating our cat food every night, but no turkeys yet. 😀
That is a great photo – I wonder if they made it over the border or if they got caught!
Turkeys Gone Wild! Get your video here.
Are you sure those aren’t penguins?
WT, I guess they can’t read ;).
TOB, I was about to hurt myself just trying to get a picture!
Witchypoo, I DO wonder what a wild turkey like that would taste like, though.
Kim, Heeey, I didn’t know where you lived! Cool!
Fresh Girl…ahhhh, gotcha 😉
Sandy, they really did look like they running from somethin’…
Claudia, it’s gotta be the first thought any of us would think, ya know?
Junebug, we’ve had to move our petfood inside for the same reason :/.
Alix, me, too!
Robinella, I wonder if I’ll get weird google hits for that comment….
Robert, ha! With MY track record, that sounds about right…!