Just wanted to let everyone know I saw some this week. Pretty cool. It looked to be a flock of 5 or 6 females foraging along the edge of pine woods along I-75 between Sarasota and Port Charlotte. They were nibbling at some shrubby undergrowth.
It’s terrible when people don’t recycle their glass bottles properly.
djm
I saw a female with about a dozen chicks following her in the woods at my brother’s place in New Hampshire this past summer. I hear them all the time up there, but this was the first time I’d seen more than one or two at a time. Very cool.
Gobble gobble!
Wild turkeys are really cool birds.
In my old home we had woods out back. I was out there in the pre-dawn hour one time doing Tai Chi when I started to hear some really weird noises up in the pine trees. First in one place, then another and another. Suddenly, a part of the dark shadows detatched itself and flew off deeper into the woods: it was a wild turkey which had been roosting in the trees overnight! I had always assumed that they hung out on the ground at night. All in all about 8 of them flew away like that. Amazing experience.
Nifty birds. Very clever, too, from what I hear. Very far removed from domestic turkeys, which I understand are too dumb to do things like reproduce and breathe.
There are a few wild turkeys up around Sheridan. I used to see them now and then on the edges of town when I lived up there, but they mostly stay out of site.
Tom
i saw a huge tom last week. They are abundant in the woods here(and in the capitol and court system).
Once i counted 27 , at the edge of a field.
they are a little less shy than they once were, due to humanoid over population and expansion.
i also see bald eagles almost daily around the water.
You are more than welcome to take a drive through southern West Virginia where wild turkeys are making a comeback. When I drive the rural backroads, I often stop for flocks of 20 to 30 wild turkeys stopped on the road. I don’t have the heart to barrel through them to see if they’ll get out of the way in time. They are pretty.
We had a prankster in Philly who used to let loose a couple of wild turkeys about a week or so before Thanksgiving.
Depending on which neighborhood they wandered into, they were either caught and cooked, flattened by a semi, or became family pets.
Our local county park (Almaden Quicksilver County Park, in SW San Jose) is home to several flocks. Their range seems to vary by season and time of day - sometimes we see them almost every day, sometimes it’s weeks between sightings (though the flock that hangs around the park’s SE entrance rarely strays - I think the owners of the riding stable across the road feed them).
It’s fun to watch them over the course of a year - hen flocks in the early spring, hens and chicks later on, then watching the chicks grow. The flock on our end of the park always seems to disappear a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, then reappear a week or so later. I’ve always suspected they’ve heard my wife’s speculation about how they’d taste compared to their supermarket cousins. 
Wife loves them. She uses a 20 ga. and about three different calls. I get stuck cleaning up.
We have a lot around here. On the drive to my church - through the Kettle Moraine State Forest - I pass an open field where there’s often a large flock (or whatever a group of turkeys is called). A few times I have passed a turkey “jogging” along the side of the road.
A couple of years ago, there was a gaggle of Canada geese hanging out in the field near where I work. And when you looked, there in the midst of all the geese was a turkey - just hanging out with the geese I guess. They were around for a week or two, the turkey was with them the whole time. It was a little strange, but everyone seemed happy!
They are everywhere around here.
They were imported into NA by Irish monks around 460.
man, you country people… 
If I see anymore than 2 turkeys at one time they better be frozen, or I’m callin animal control. 
Don’t you believe it! They was plottin’, they was. An’ schemin’! Plottin’ an’ schemin’! It’s dark days for all o’ us when them bunch gets together. Aye!
djm