I didn't know turkey chicks could fly.

[timster2]

I was watching mama turkey and her five chicks out the kitchen window. Well mama jumps over a ditch I had cut with the backhoe and I am wondering just how the little chicks are going to follow. Well all five one at a time take flight and cross the ditch. I had my camera and got a picture of the last one flying over the ditch. The picture is not clear but you can see the chick in flight. I didn't know chicks that small could fly.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah. My family and I were walking through a state park and started a couple hens and probably 20-30 chicks. The hens took off flying and the chicks attempted to follow. Oh my goodness.... the poor little chicks could only get a few feet off the ground and all you heard was peeping and crashing into bushes and fuzzy little feathers all over the place. We were all cringing as the little fuzz balls kept bouncing off of the saplings. I felt bad for the little dudes. :laughing:

 

[ray66v]

I was recently surprised by a baby killdeer swimming in my neighbors pond.

I guess no one told it they can't do that?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When I was a kid back in the 50's, although I was an avid hunter, I never saw a wild turkey. Now they come through our yard almost every day; one day last winter I counted 64 birds in our front yard. The comeback of the wild turkey has been phenomenal; probably more here now than when Columbus first landed. Beaver is another species that has been reestablished and have managed to make pests of themselves in some instances.