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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
If you've ever been walking through the woods & startled one into flight, the idea of an F-15 Strike Turkey isn't that far fetched.
Let's just say it was a good thing I was wearing my brown pants.
Happened to me too. I stopped to go #1 on a trip back home on a side road off the highway. I walked a few feet up to a tree.
Well, up above me in the tree was a wild turkey I didn't see. I was getting ready to pee and BAM!!!!BOOM!!!BAM!!!!BOOM!!!! HOLY mother of God!!!
Thought my life here on earth was about to be snatched down to hell. SERIOUSLY.
Tony M
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
mhardy6647 wrote: »mhardy6647 wrote: »I didn't manage to get a photo, but we were down at Huntley Meadows in Alexandria (roughly a year ago) and saw an osprey, fish in talons, being harassed by an eagle. The latter did finally manage to pester the osprey enough that the fish got dropped. Needless to say, the eagle swooped down, grabbed the fish, and lit out.
Eagles are way more opportunistic than I ever imagined as a kid.
Much of their reputation is undeserved
They're pretty smarmy birds, left to their own devices. Beautiful, though.
Heck, they don't even have an impressive call. Almost always, when you "hear" a (bald) eagle call in a movie or on a TV show (e.g., the opening credits of Northern Exposure, if you remember that), it's an overdubbed red-tailed hawk!
Ben Franklin lobbied for the adoption of the turkey in lieu of the bald eagle as the national symbol for a reason.
I'm glad Mr. Franklin lost that one. Can you imagine an F-15 Turkey?
nooshinjohn
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
Just saw this posted at hifihaven...
mhardy6647
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