Last week, I wrote about the last snow of winter, which I surely thought it was, but as I write this from Elaine's and my home in Botetourt County, Virginia, snow is falling...on April 4. I normally go to Tennessee to spring gobbler hunt and this year I did the same the first three days of that state's season.
Like here in Virginia, the weather in Northeast Tennessee was very cold, but fortunately, thanks to my good friend Larry Proffitt's turkey hunting skills, I was able to kill a nice gobbler on opening day of the season. But Sunday was cold and rainy and Monday was cold and windy. The most interesting thing that happened on the trip was Larry and I seeing four albino turkey hens - a first for me. They were all in the same flock and with a bearded hen. What an interesting genetic study this particular flock would make.
Since coming back home, I have spent a great deal of time bird watching. This morning, I thrilled to the dulcet sounds of a hermit thrush and observed such interesting birds as golden crowned kinglets, plus observed five black vultures perched in a sycamore tree next to our house. Nothing had died, or nothing that I could see or smell, but it's never a pleasant thing to come out of your house in the morning and seeing black vultures waiting expectantly.
Snow, albino hens, and hermit thrushes...interesting things always happening in the outdoors.
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