After 6 years of haggling back in the 1700s, a young Congress decided upon the Bald Eagle as the national bird of the U.S. In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed his displeasure with the choice, claiming that the wild turkey was a much more respectable bird, one who would take up the fight against the red coats if they were to enter its barnyard. He found the eagle to be a bird of bad moral character and lazy to boot.
In Sudbury, wild turkeys are just as likely to cross your path as a deer or a rabbit.
4 comments:
Nice piece of history I didn't know. I don't know either about the moral character or the laziness of eagles, but I like these turkeys and your photo is very funny.
Oh I like the idea of wild turkeys making a comeback. They are even back in parts of Ohio but none around here where I live. It is a nice photograph that you captured of the turkeys foraging for bugs and sprouts.
I've heard these things can be pretty feisty? Are they hunted up there.
We have turkey vultures. Do they count for anything? They're very hard-working and valuable birds...
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I can't imagine the turkey being anyones national bird but I imagine it sure would change thanks-giving dinner!
Thanks for your visit, I look forward to seeing your Autumn leaves!
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