Eeeee! That is so. damned. cool.

Also double points for connie, then - accuracy and imagery together.

I grew up in the borderlands of the Applachian Mountains. I am familiar with stupid lazy hunters and some game birds.

I hear that wild turkeys are making a big comeback population-wise.

(fascinated with new information) It's hard to tell from those pictures - do they get very high? As in, becoming those dots wheeling off in the distance? The ones in the pictures look as if they keep fairly low, rather than doing the kind of soaring a lighter bird might do.

I think they're low fliers, preferring to go from cover to cover. They like woody areas.

We have tons of wild turkeys around our house. They fly up into the trees to roost at night--they kind of have to hop from branch to branch. The farthest I've ever seen one fly, though, was when Zoe ran barking at an unlucky straggler, who gobbled and managed, somehow, to fly over the garage. OMGWTF was that funny. They don't fly so much as take wobbly high jumps.

The drabble challenge is good, but I am completely braindead. Loving the ones posted so far, though.

I think they're low fliers, preferring to go from cover to cover. They like woody areas.

So it sort of the like the quail/grouse/pheasant flying preferences? Most excellent.

Right -- those are all galliformes.

Except they really don't fly so much as flop upwards, in my experience.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Oh come on, it was right there, making faces. Somebody had to say it.