Happy Thanksgiving - 2010

Wild Turkey gobblers in full strut - photo by Criseyda Koonce

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
- Albert Schweitzer

I hope you and yours are having a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  A few years ago I got to see these wild turkey gobblers who were in full strut, trying to impress the ladies (aka: turkey hens).  This was a fun picture to take.  I was about 30 feet away walking parallel with them.  They were walking very slowly and deliberately and would turn side to side so the hens could see all their beautifulness. I got lucky and they briefly decided to face the same way - at the same time.  If I took one step toward them, they would slowly start to drop their feathers. As soon as I took that step back away from them, their feathers would go back up.

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