Wild Turkeys

[shipperx]

Passed a  gaggle?  pack?  murder?   f wild turkeys wandering by the side of the road this morning.  There were at least six of them, one of which was splayed out like a poster for Thanksgiving!  

How weird and unexpected.

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

A rafter of turkeys, apparently. (And penguins can be both a huddle and a parcel.) I love collective nouns.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I spent the first forty years of my life without ever seeing a wild turkey. But since then it's been turkeys, turkeys, turkeys. They must be having quite a comeback or something.

[chloris67.livejournal.com]

Do you not usually see them where you are? We have a couple of flocks around here that come through the yard nearly every day. (They even nest in our trees sometimes -- now THAT'S a weird sight!) I haven't seen the boys doing their HEY, LAAADIEES! dance yet this year but I'm expecting it soon.

[typographer.livejournal.com]

According to my old copy of An Exaltation of Larks either "rafter of turkeys" or, if it is November, a "death-row of turkeys."