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<\/a>\nActually, I saw this little guy in the house yesterday. I would have happily removed him to the outdoors, but he was way up high on the top of a window frame. There was no doubt in my mind that by the time I figured out how to get up that high, he would have jumped away, so I didn’t even try. Today he was making his way outside, hanging on my screen door. I had the presence of mind to snap a few pix before I opened the door and let him out. <\/p>\n
Then in the middle of the day I came home from a trip to town, surprised by how hot it was outside in the sun, despite the breeze. So I came in the house and began shutting windows to keep it cool inside. As I did so, I caught a glimpse of a hen turkey nipping blueberries off my bushes. I don’t mind sharing, so that wasn’t a problem. Turkeys have such good eyesight (and hearing, too, I think) that I was surprised by the fact that my activity shutting the windows facing her didn’t cause her to bolt. Instead, she simply moved slowly away from me through the tall grass. I was pleased that her path was bringing her down into the yard. And I was really thrilled to see that she was accompanied by five poults. I knew I had to shoot the picture through the closed door & screen – had I opened them mama and babies would have freaked out, and I’m amazed that the pictures turned out so well. <\/p>\n Your turn — had any visitors at your house lately? I love living in the middle of nowhere. I get to see nature up close & personal. In the last few weeks I’ve seen a red fox dashing across my yard, watched turkey vultures soaring effortlessly overhead, and (don’t tell my sisters – they get nervous) a bear crossing the road a few hundred yards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-nature","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThey all sauntered off back into the woods while I watched.<\/p>\n
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