What is up with birds and crossing roads? On the way home, day before yesterday, somewhere around 15 10-15 pound turkeys crossed my road. Traffic had to stop and wait, for quite some time, simply because the birds in question went from an unorganized grouping on one side of the road, to a single-file line across the road, and then back to an unorganized grouping on the other side of the road.
What the hell?
Did the lead turkey look both ways before crossing the street? (We have actually seen a groundhog do just that.) Did they post crossing guards? Is there a predetermined order of who goes first, akin to the jumping-between-buildings order of Enemy at the Gates
? Do they cross similarly-smooth surfaces in single-file lines as well? And, above all, why?
Well, apart from taunting those who cannot legally hunt them at the moment…
you know, most people would describe the birds by their age, sex or at least size, rather than the dressed-out weight.
The funny part? I have never hunted a day in my life. But when trying to figure out how to describe live turkeys’ sizes, there is an obvious metric…