It is one day past the american Thanksgiving as I post this.
This video, however, is from mid May of this year. A few days past, really.
We are visited by Turkeys often.
It is a source of joy for us.
This year we saw juveniles, both Tom and Hen, and mature birds, but no Turklets.
This is a concern.
The loss of habitat I keep mentioning. We wonder if the predators got to the eggs. We won’t really know until next year.
And by then it’ll be too late.
It is a hard thing, to accept The Wild as it is. The Wild serves its own, knows its own ways, suffers us but only for a little while (in the scheme of Nature’s time).
People tend to forget we’ve only been on the planet a (very) little wild. Our kind – homo sapiens – has been on the planet about a quarter as long as Neanderthals walked about.
Some say they’re gone, extinct.
I honestly don’t know. They had bigger brains than us and were better adapted to northern climates than we are or have been. That much smarter, maybe they simply hid.
Do you know you wouldn’t recognize a Neanderthal if you saw one walking down the street or in the grocery or in the mall if they wore modern clothing? Forget what you were told about how they looked, they looked much like us, only more solid, more muscular, more body hair.
Did I ever tell you I’m on record as having benched 350# ten for ten?
Or that I like the cold?
Or that Susan (wife/partner/Princess) won’t braided my back when I was asleep?
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?