eBirdseed.com Wild Bird Feeding Blog: "Turkeys Invade!" and a Peaceful Bog

Well, so much for a good bird shot using the remote camera. The hairys, downys, and even the flickers had been active around the suet, and I was hoping to get a good photo when the turkeys drifted into the scene. (I swear those things are quieter than smoke.) Anyway, here's the pic I did get. Kinda funny really. I've tried setting the tripod low and seeing if I could get some close ups of the gobblers, and have had some success, but still it's tough to do with a camera with a fixed focal length of apx. 15" and a mind of its own. The photographs are simply too close for such large birds. The wife and I have even entertained the thought of buying a remote for the Eos and plunking that camera down in prime turkey territory. We could set our own focal length, and see what happens. But that could be very time intensive, and should we spook them, that could be an expensive proposition to boot.

Onward (or even backward) to a different place and time... The snap below is of the old Harwich Bank Street bog. It was donated as a conservation area some time ago. Thirty plus years past, my chums and I grew up roaming these "wilds". What magnificent memories. We built tree houses, forts, had hikes... Yeah, we were even Frost's "swingers of birches". I feel sorry for so many of the kids today. Far too often, theirs' is exclusively a world of "the mall", "IM", "HDTV", and the Internet. It's been my great good fortune to know both the world of the bog and the blog, and IMHO young minds should know the former at least as well as the latter. Turkeys and digital cameras offer a fine reminder of this.

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