The temperature rose into the 40’s today, and the sun came out. The snow melted a bit. However, there were still patches of snow in some areas.
I happened to come across a large number of wild turkey tracks along a snowy part of the trail:
Some of these turkeys were quite large. My guess is this was a flock of toms and jakes that have banded together to see out the winter.
Here’s my hand next to the largest tracks for comparison:
Wad giants!
They are just a little smaller than bustards (Otis tarda).
A big tom can be over 20 pounds in weight.
To a pair of European ears, it is an old cliche to hear said that in America everything is big.
Only that it is not a cliche.
That is exactly what they tell me
Oh My God, Retrieverman!!!! Stay OUT OF THOSE WOODS!!!!! Those arent’t turkey tracks, those are VELOCIRAPTOR tracks!!!!!!
LOL. In one draft of this post, I wrote “dinosaur tracks.”