Turkeys on the run.

Mrs. Shutterwi and I were leaving a stream we had been fishing on (see the post above) when just up the road three wild turkeys crossed from right to left and disappeared into a corn field. We both reached for the camera and I slowed the truck to try and locate the spot where they had cross.

With camera in hand I slowly drove along the edge of the corn field looking for any sign of the birds. I was just about to give up thinking they were long gone when the three birds, having reversed direction and increased their speed crossed right in front of the truck. All I could managed to get were three quick shots through the windshield.

My guess is they ran into the field and met up with some predator and quickly reversed direction. The whole scene was like something out of a carnival shooting gallery where the running target runs in one direction then quickly reverse direction and runs back from whence it came.

For me it was an opportunity to get a close up shot of what is a fairly new scene in northern Wisconsin. Wiid free ranging turkeys. My nephew the "turkey hunter" said they could run and he wasn't kidding. They can RUN!