You just never know what Nancy Haun is going to capture each day, some days it’s trains, other days it’s critters... today it’s both! She starts out with the turkeys that were roosting in the nearby trees, hunkering down for the night. That’s actually quite a big bird to be roosting in the trees like that, but they do so to be safe at night, as the predators can’t get them as easily up there.

The next photo is the group of turkeys and deer that have opted to spend the winter at Nancy and Jim’s Haunderosa in Skanee. Check out the shelter in the background, Nancy said it was used all last winter by a Mom deer and her baby. Pretty nice digs, with meals included. She also mentioned that the turkeys are getting used to them and she’s doing her best not to get “attached” to them, as they sure eat a lot of feed and bird seed.

That bottom photo is at Milepost 216, on the L’Anse Hill in Bovine. This was before the snowfighter arrived to clear the tracks for the trains. You can’t see the tracks and it looks like the deer were snowed in there with the depth of the snow.

But never fear... Tim and the snowfighter were on the way. Today’s video was recorded by Nancy on the Golf Course Road crossing on the L’Anse Hill. The Canadian National was arriving sometime that day and I’m sure the deer were happy to have the snow cleared, too.

Interesting how the
turkeys can get up
there so high. I guess
every day is
Thanksgiving for
forest predators.
And that looks like
painstakingly hard
work clearing those
tracks. I hear Ace
Hardware is having
a sale on Toro
snowblowers right
now.

…and a big thanks
to Nancy for braving
the cold temps to
bring us these pics!

Cool pictures. I didn't realize turkeys could get
that high either. I love the one with them and the
deer.

17 years ago today my dad passed away. I remember
telling my pasty friends like it was yesterday. How
time flies. I still miss him.

Yep, turkeys can fly..when they walk through the
snow, they grow big snow and ice balls on their
poor little bare legs...while they eat, they
usually stand on one leg, while the other is tucked
up under them...trying to melt off the stuff..poor
lil' birds.

Turkeys fly?
Except when dropped out of helicopters?

#4 = Rudolph the Red Knows Train Deer?

Hi
D.A., great WKRP in Cincinnati episode. As I'm sure
you know, there's a difference between the wild
turkeys--who have to survive on their own--and
domesticated turkeys. Being able to get up in a tree
to roost is pro-survival. That said, I don't know if
wild turkeys are good enough fliers to survive a
helicopter drop.