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Turkeys "necking"


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I've seen pictures of this before, but this was the first time I've ever seen it for myself.

Two of these guys did battle while the other two followed them around in half strut for the better part of an hour.

Eventually I remembered I still had my box call in my pack, so I gave them a couple clucks and they made their way across the field to me. :bye:

 

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Cool pictures, Wooly.

I've seen it twice...Once years ago on the river flats near Erwin, NY and this year opening day of gobbler season in Ontario.

I once saw two groups of gobblers ( perhaps about a dozen in each group) get into a free for all, but as I remember that fracas involved a lot of agressive purring, spurring and wing flapping, but no "necking"...

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Yep, there was plenty of all that too Pygmy.

Every now and then I'd hear a commotion (wing flapping and purring), and then one of them would get airborn above the grass for me to see them.

I didn't have the best seat in the house for this show, but I saw enough that it counts as a first for me!

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