Just Passing Through? Hmmmmmmmm.

Just the other morning as I was watching TV, trying to catch all the NCAA scores from last night's game, I happened to catch a glance out my window of a motley bunch strolling across my front lawn. There walking in a straight line, was a flock of turkeys - a dozen in all - taking their sweet time skirting around the swing set and trampoline.

While I'm almost positive this is the same bunch that inhabits the Ledge nearby and makes an occasional appearance or two on the railroad tracks, I have to wonder if they have connections to the other gang of turkeys that live in the Ledge near Breakneck Road south of Oakfield.

I've never had problems with the local turkeys, except that they enjoy the corn out of our fields at our expense. At least they've never dropped an A-Bomb on my windshield while taking flight like the dumb Oakfield birds do. However, this local group seemed to be casing our yard, casting furtive glances towards my car and the house.

I wonder about this since I happened to scare the daylights out of one of the Oakfield turkeys on Breakneck Road last week. As I was entering the hairpin turn at the top of the Ledge, I was just as surprised as the turkey to meet this feathered critter on the roadway. This errant bird had three options: take a right and fly into the stone-face of the Niagara Escarpment, outrun the car or take its chances in flying into the trees on the left. So what did the bird do? While looking over its shoulder at me and my car, the crazy bird kept RUNNING down the road.

I'm not a monster that I would try to run down a wild animal (although I admit wondering if my horn would scare the tar out of him). I stepped on the brakes and wondered how long this little race would go on. Eventually he gathered up enough speed and flew through the trees.

So now I'm wondering if the word among the turkey clans has spread and I am on the Turkey Terrorist suspect list. Just the other day my son wondered aloud about the large amount of bird doo-doo on my car. "Wow, that must have been a huge bird to have made this mess!" he exclaimed. Yeah, maybe even a turkey out to make a hit.