Apparently, I was mistaken.

[MineralMan]

A few minutes ago, I heard something outside my lower level window. I couldn't tell what it was, ay band my blinds are closed, but it sounded like someone speaking words, but they were unintelligible. I thought for a minute and it came to me: "It's Donald Trump! He has come to get my advice about something."

So, I hurried upstairs to talk with him. Imagine my surprise when I saw a huge turkey standing under mlcony deck. It has been gobbling as it ate seeds that dropped from my feeder. It must have weighed over 20 lbs.

So, not Trump. I'm disappointed, to say the least.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Look on the bright side

At least you got a visit from one turkey

[magicarpet]

2. Well what comes out of djt's mouth is like having juicy green and creamy colored bird droppings smeared,...

.... across your windshield by your wiper blade.

The sight of and clean up is both gut wrenching and nauseating.

So there is a bit of a connection there.

[Moostache]

3. Great... now ANOTHER thing I rather like (Turkey) has been Trump-tainted...

LOL... it is true - EVERYTHING he touches dies...

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Same IQ.

[Tbear]

5. Wild turkey eating seeds under my feeder. Black squirrel got territorial.

Made a couple dashes at the turkey’s feet but the turkey hung in there for those tasty, “easy” treats.
Black squirrel took a run and a flying leap and did a body block right to the turkey’s head.
The turkey was pretty surprised, literally shook his head, and left.
There is an allegory there : turkey trump and squirrel Iran.

[Ocelot II]

6. Lately I've been hearing the squawks of a red-bellied woodpecker,

but they aren't quite the same as the screeches of a yellow-bellied tinypecker.

[MineralMan]

7. So Far, the Pileated Woodpecker Has Not Made an Appearance

They can be pretty loud. We're about due to see it for a Spring visit. It comes back in the Fall.

[Ocelot II]

8. Saw one of those in my back yard here in the 'hood last summer, to my amazement.

They are BIG, and prehistoric-looking.

[MineralMan]

14. Here's a video of a mother Pileated in my front yard

in St. Paul. She has two fledglings with her. The video is poor, but you can see her feeding both fledglings by regurgitating stuff. I linked to the video on YouTube. I uploaded it there long agon.

They seem to love Maple trees, for some reason. We had them show up in St. Paul, and now in Maple Grove. Always in or near a big maple.

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[Ocelot II]

17. Cool! You hardly ever see them on the ground.

The one I saw in my yard was in a big hackberry tree. I suppose they'll go to whatever trees have bugs in their bark.

[MineralMan]

15. Here's another brief video of the house across the street

in St. Paul, Momma turkey is herding a whole flock of young ones.

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[Ocelot II]

16. Those critters have been all over my neighborhood, too.

Here's one lurking by a car. I walked right up to it.

[MineralMan]

18. They don't seem to fear humans

much. Fascinating.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. Guess who's coming to dinner?

Fatten him up!

[lastlib]

10. tRump, turkey---

easy mistake to make....... but damned insulting to turkeys.......

[GiqueCee]

11. In winters with really heavy snow...

... we've gotten snow load off the roof and drifts so high that turkeys can help themselves to birdseed by just walking over to the feeder mounted on an 8-foot high post and bending down to it. They look in the kitchen window over the sink, drop a few poopsicles for the dogs, and saunter off 'til dinnertime. We've had more than a dozen at times.
It's easy to mistake turkey gobbling for Trump's gibberish!

[waterwatcher123]

12. It might not be a true wild turkey.

There were quite a few complaints years ago in the western suburbs of the Twin Cities where turkeys were landing on television antennas and thumping around quite a bit on the roofs of houses. It turns out they were a cross between wild turkeys and the domestic variety. They had the looks of a wild turkey and the intellect of a domestic one (there is a reason people use the term turkey to describe a dull-witted person).

PS. I used live in Spring Park on Lake Minnetonka. These birds were all over the place in Mound and westward. Maybe they have moved east and expanded their range by now.

[MineralMan]

13. That's possible.

We have little troupes of them coming through the yard in nice weather. Lots of them, really. They were common when I lived in St. Paul, too. I think they're ordinary wild turkeys. They love what's under the bird feeders everyone seems to have in their yards. Can't blame them.

I live in a west metro suburb. Not far from Minnetonka, really. We have all sorts of critters passing through.

[waterwatcher123]

19. We occassionally see wild turkeys in Duluth too. But are sitting ducks for coyotes, hawks and eagles.

We lived there a long time ago. But it was in the rolling hills toward Christmas Lake where people were up in arms about these birds causing a ruckus breaking their TV antennas and generally thumping around on their roofs (roosting on their roofs). The police and DNR figured out that these were not true wild turkeys. But I think they thought the best management technique was to let nature take its course since there were critters who eat them all over the place (coyotes, owls, hawks, eagles, etc.).

The wild turkeys that make it to Duluth are usually wiped out quickly because they are too predictable (they show up at the same place and at the same time every day - pretty easy for predators to pick them off).