Guess Who's Coming to Dinner!

(click on picture to enlarge)

Put out the food and stand back; there are all sorts of creatures waiting coming for food in the neighborhood. Finches and humming birds are beautiful, but having a turkey wander up for food makes for a good show.

Our neighbors have done a great job of making the local birds feel at home with multiple feeders. Since our kitchen and living room windows look out on the feeding area, we get the benefit as well. There is more information on eating habits of the wild turkey than you ever wanted to know on Wikipedia here.

There are actually a lot of wild turkeys around here, sometimes a dozen or more wander through the yard. The same morning we were watching this turkey, we saw our local ground hog come out from the bushes for some sun, a few squirrels and a rabbit run through the plants, 5 deer at the edge of the woods below us, a flight of Canadian geese go by, and a hawk gliding on the currents waiting for the rabbit or squirrel to wander too far from cover. Haven't seen our red foxes for a couple of days, but they're there. It's nice to be a part of this urban co-habitation.