For days I have had a single wild turkey hen hanging around..
They finally found the deck feeder, dance of joy!! new flocj of sparrows are coming every day now.. and then take turns between the deck feeder and the bigger tree feeder.
Hubby called me out to see the trails in the sky in the sunsets.. wow!
and then on a different day, farmgal, if you take photos of the moon, the back lite rim at this stage will show amazing craters..
Last one for this week! the amazing thing is these were taken free hand on a cold bitter moment. I really like them and when it is warmer, I will try again with the full set up 🙂
Just another Day on the Farm 
Wow. Those are some of your best pictures yet! Especially the one of the turkey. It looks so secretive yet peaceful.
I love that photo.. I call it peek a poo.. the red berries the blue flush on her face.. those bright sharp eyes.. I like the moon photos as well.. working on learning my shutter speeds 🙂 Thank you for the kind comments Crafty!
HI Valeria,
Love your pictures especially the first one of turkey It is so natural. Thanks for sharing.
I saw her fly up and that she was eating but its a far way across the yard and the sun was so low at that point, I had the worst glare.. I knew I only had a little bit of time.. so I lined it up and took a series of photos and held my break as such enough she flew down.. then I headed in to see if I had gotten what I was hoping for.. there it was.. 🙂
They just keep getting better and better! : ) But what is it that she’s “hiding” behind?
Sad to say, these super cold, crisp nights are when the skies are the clearest, so grab them while you can; )
she is up in the hawthorn tree eating the fruit..
Lol, sad to say, I guess I’ve never really been close enough to see the fruit:/
I harvest some of it for our own hawthorn jelly, I also dry some of it for tea’s as I do the leaves for the herb cupboard due to its amazing health properties. I leave the higher ones for the birds, the blue jays, wild turkeys and more love them..
A family member (think you know which one?) used a tea of the leaves & flowers to correct a health issue and there were MANY in the neighbours’ pasture to the east. (Guess I just never got over there at the right time of year… :/)
Its strong enough medically that you must be careful with it, that’s for sure. If you are on meds it can mess with them, but a very small amount used carefully has some really good studies on keeping good heart health and strengthening your heart
Yes, Hawthorn is cardio-tonic: lowers high and raises low blood pressure… We’ll definitely need to talk about this.