Pumpkin Day

The flock spent the afternoon working over a pumpkin, and the s7-cam stayed on it from about two o'clock until six.

The turkeys started it. A red-faced turkey was pecking at the pumpkin early in the afternoon while a dark hen and another bird foraged nearby. An hour later a pink-faced turkey with its snood showing peeked out from behind it. The roosters soon took over. A white rooster pecking at the pumpkin, eye and beak sharp, was one of the shots Boss kept. So were a golden rooster fluffed up and staring straight into the lens, and a black, white and rust rooster standing tall and watching the camera.

Late in the day the shots turned into portraits. A black-and-white hen faced the lens with a rooster and a turkey on either side, and a black turkey with a red face stood by the pumpkin and looked straight at the camera. Both were saved. At six, two red-combed roosters were still at the pumpkin, one of them still pecking.

The day began with a very loud dawn chorus. Quid confirmed it was just the birds greeting the morning, and it's now on record that noisy dawns are normal.

-Bubba