#wild turkey
A group of eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) encountered on a beautiful October day. This is only part of the large group we encountered. In the fall and winter hens and their poults/chicks from that year form large aggregations, sometimes up to 100 birds. Filmed are 19 birds crossing the road, but a big portion had already crossed. I’d say this group had about 40-50 from what I could observe.
I find it hard to observer turkeys and not think of their dinosaur heritage.
Things are rough in S6 for Eva Crowder. Her fiance is getting mixed up with the wrong people yet again; her ex is a federal agent threatening to send her back to prison should she slip up. So all things considered, it’s understandable that she’d resort to the ol’ Secret Breakfast with the fine Wild Turkey as a Jim substitute.
It’s only later on the episode, when things have settled down a bit and she’s feel a bit better about seeing ol’ Boyd Crowder, that she can graduate to more of a sipper like Boyd’s office stash of Buffalo Trace.
“Woodland Queen” Eastern Wild Turkey 9"x12" oil on panel.
This beautiful hen raised her poults behind my house last year, and I feel like I got to know her a bit.. I knew I wanted to paint her portrait when she was among the Persicaria sagittata; it has tiny white flowers on thin stalks… it looks like they are hovering!
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Shine - rainbow highlights lift the brown feathers into green and orange.
Seen - A portrait of the visitor, her mouth forever serious as a hard set beak. But the sky lights her bare head, and she’s here now, so who can really limit what might happen next?
Not a Cat - Balancing on these two legs without the feline grace, like a lollipop standing on its stick end. This turkey ducks and bobs on the rail, trying to find a good way to perch. What kind of hostess offers no chair?
