Wild Turkey feeding on an apple at Arkalon Park near Liberal, KS. 12 October 2013
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Wild Turkey feeding on an apple at Arkalon Park near Liberal, KS. 12 October 2013
Arkalon Morning Fall Birding
12 October 2013
On our morning birding trip, Jeff Calhoun and I came across several Wild Turkey at the campground at Arkalon Park. Not bashful whatsoever, these turkey were more curious of us and whether we had any food than anything else. Jeff found an apple just lying around and we tried coaxing them to feed. Sure enough one of them did approach Jeff, and the following is a sequence of images I shot of a Wild Turkey feeding on an apple -- by hand! Bizarre to say the least.
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