Friday's Post is Going to the Birds

 Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you. I hope you had a good week, and if you're like me, trying to find something to be  optimistic about after the election results.  (But sadly it's quite worrisome on so many levels.)

      For Nicole's Friday Face Off and Gillena's Friday Lunch Break this week I've got some birds to share. The first flock is from some photos I took back in mid-October when I made my last visit to my local botanical garden with some friends. We came across the garden's flock of guinea hens. I think they liked our company, because they followed us around for about twenty minutes. 

     All the time they were squawking and shuffling around our feet. I've read they are good for tick control because they eat them.  After awhile we turned off in a direction they obviously didn't want to go, and they left us. 

     Then the other morning I glanced out the back window and saw that there were 19 wild turkeys in the backyard.  This included 3 who were sitting in one of the trees.

     I get a few turkeys fairly regularly in the yard, but it's rare I get a flock this big.

     A couple were even brave enough to come up to the bird feeders. Sorry for the stripped shadows in the photos, but there was dog nose slime in the way 😦.  Of course at first Mr. Pete (who likes to sit in our big bay window and watch his yard)  had to bark. He didn't seem to bother the turkeys at all. However, when I got too close to the window they started to hurry off into the woods, so I stood back and let them come back into the yard.

The turkeys are probably worried with US Thanksgiving coming in a few weeks that  they better not let anyone get to close to them-grin 😏. (Even though turkey hunting season in NH is over except for archery.)

Boy that dog nose slime on the windows is pretty nasty, isn't it?

Have a great weekend and start to the new week ahead.