| To The Editor, | |||||||||
| All winter long a herd of turkeys have been invading my backyard to partake of the feeder scatterings | |||||||||
| left by the lesser birds. I call them a herd because they prefer to walk though snow rather than fly over | |||||||||
| it. When they do fly, gliding across barren fields from their roosting places, they come in formation | |||||||||
| like an air force squadron on a mission to a target. | |||||||||
| Lately, the Toms have been battling to see who gets to send out the Valentines, a sure sign of Spring. | |||||||||
| The object seems to be to clamp your beak onto the other guy’s neck and take him down. | |||||||||
| This is done with a great flutter of wings and fan display. Unfortunately, beauty is only feather deep: | |||||||||
| the Tom’s have faces only a Pilgrim could love. They obviously don’t take after their namesake. | |||||||||
| Another sign of an early Spring, our resident ground hog, Roadkill Reggie, didn’t see his shadow again | |||||||||
| this year. Mind you, he doesn’t have much of a shadow to see, but on the up side, he doesn’t run back | |||||||||
| to his burrow either. His predecessor, Mortality Moe got into a rough scrape with a snow plow, but Reggie has real staying power. | |||||||||
| And so, Happy Early Spring everyone! | |||||||||
| Tom Gonzalez | |||||||||
Thomas Gonzalez
Vankleek Hill
