MYGDFTD: Turkey Crossing Guard

[jesse_the_k]

I love the geography here: four lakes, several rivers and creeks, many green spaces — municipal parks, a dozen golf courses, the UW’s Arboretum — providing habitat for beavers, cranes, coyotes, foxes, muskrats, in addition to the typical suburban deer, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, geese and ducks.

In the last decade the wild turkey population has exploded (no hunting allowed in the city). I turned a corner yesterday on my way home from the pool and encountered these five wild turkeys moseying around on a suburban sidewalk.

Neither my presence nor my chair’s motor spooked them. I scooted out into the street which seemed to signal "time to cross!" There wasn’t much traffic, but I kept pace as they crossed holding my hand up high to alert drivers.

An hour later they were walnut snacking on my neighbor’s lawn.

MYGDFTD = my good deed for the day.

What was yours?

Comments

A Drudge of Lexicographers say ... a flock of camels!

[jesse_the_k]

Makes sense.

I love this about English -- so many breed-specific collective nouns.

Historically, a herd was any group of animals traveling or eating together, as was a flock, and this jumble continued on into the modern era. Herd, a word most people associate with deer, horses, or cattle, has been used of porpoises, seals, and birds, and flock, a word we now associate with sheep and birds, has been used of elephants, lions, camels, and pigs.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/a-drudge-of-lexicographers-presents-collective-nouns