Each day the turkeys march twice across my front lawn, once each morning and again in the evening. When I first arrived last fall to my rental property in the Bitterroot Valley it was impossible to miss the turkeys. A flock of approximately thirty was feeding in the south pasture; many of the birds were varying sizes of the year’s hatch. The presence of a moving truck and vehicles didn’t seem to bother the birds. Neither did my two dogs. …Listen for more…

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