Turkey!

Rich, who hunts our land for turkey and deer and his daughter were on our land recently. It is turkey season. No sooner did they park their truck, when they saw a likely target lurking nearby on the logging road. Rich said that what they do is set up a decoy jack, a young turkey and then make female turkey calls. They got one to respond in no time at all and managed to convince this alpha turkey that this would be his lucky day. He came to give the decoy some competition and that's when Rich's daughter took her shot. She was victorious---it was her lucky day!

Rich had the freshly caught turkey in his truck when he came over to give us some fresh clams that he also caught. Close up, the turkey was a magnificent looking bird and we recognized many of the feathers that we see in our vineyard rows. Rich thought that this bird might be more than 20 pounds dressed, and later confirmed that it was 24 pounds!
One of my favorite videos that I took on the land is this one Turkey vs. Tractor, where my husband is racing 30-40 turkeys that were in our vineyard on a nice fall day in 2013. I guess we have one less turkey in the vineyard now.