I saw a wild turkey kill a chickadee today.

[Harker]

I noticed a turkey running around our yard with something flapping around in its beak, closely pursued by the rest of the rafter. It was windy, and I thought maybe it had picked up a stray piece of plastic or something.

I took a look with the binoculars, and was surprised to see it was a struggling chickadee.

It lay motionless on the snow when thrown aside.

[XanaDUer2]

1. Poor little thing nt

[whathehell]

2. +1

[Harker]

5. +33. n/t

[handmade34]

3. that is strange

I imagine that the chickadee was injured when the turkey came across it...

[Harker]

4. The turkeys, sometimes as many as thirty at a time...

peck at corn, oats, and seeds that fall from feeders.

Chickadees are here (upstate NY) in large numbers as part of a mixed flock. I hadn't seen an injured one prior, so I'm guessing the little dear had no fear.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Love my chickadees and they are lightning fast. They talk to me when I go outside.

Surprising a turkey could catch one. Perhaps it was sick or injured.


KY........ .........

[Harker]

7. Maybe so...

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I prefer to think they're just too innocent

A mutual love of chickadees, and birdwatching generally, had a lot to do with my wife and I getting together.

I, also, feel a great kinship with them. Many of my best friends are and have been chickadees and mountain chickadees.

ETA:. There's a patient two-note call coming from the woods, a potent reminder of the tenuous nature of life.