Dave Smith wrote:
....
> We had no turkeys here until the mid 1980s. The province of Ontario and
> state of Michigan traded some moose for some turkeys. Apparently the
> moose are doing fine in their new home and our turkey population
> expanded so much that within a few years they opened up a turkey hunting
> season.

thank you for the mooses! i still have yet
to see one in the wild myself (even after living in
the UP of MI for 15 yrs and also driving around
Lake Superior and trying to see them we still never
quite managed it. i came close one evening but
failed...)


> It's odd that I often see them in fields or by the road when I am
> driving, and I almost always see fresh tracks in the back fields and
> bush, but I almost never see them when I am walking back there.

we have them here in the wild around us, a lot of them,
i'm glad to see them out in the fields. they rarely get
close to the yard here, but once in a while they might
wander through.

do you have turkey vultures?


songbird