[SBB] Wild Turkey

[Ginger Langdon-Lassagne <[[email protected]]>]

Today, my two kids and I hiked up the Mine Hill trail at Almaden  
Quicksilver park, from 1:30 to 3:15pm. Not the best time of day for  
birding, but there was still plenty of activity. I heard (but did not  
see)  my first of year ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER (two locations), but  
nothing else was out of the ordinary... except this:

At a likely-looking patch of chemise, sagebrush, and other chaparral,  
I 'pished' for a few seconds, hoping for a blue-grey gnatcatcher. A  
bird called back, alright! Not five feet in front of me, a WILD  
TURKEY let loose with a resounding "GOBBLE-GOBBLE!" I nearly fell off  
the hillside in my startlement.

Who knew that Turkeys responded to pishing?

Ginger Langdon-Lassagne

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