Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!mit-eddie!media-lab!geek From: geek@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Chris Schmandt) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: OUTDOOR: Wild turkeys? Message-ID: <5211@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Feb 91 02:38:43 GMT References: <144605@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: geek@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Chris Schmandt) Distribution: na Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 17 In article <144605@pyramid.pyramid.com> sandra@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Sandra Macika) writes: > >Thanks for the Great artwork! You did a wonderful job. But I would have called >this part Grey; even Dark Grey. Does it ever actually look white? > Having watched a group of 4 today for 15 minutes today, I'd have to vote for grey myself! They were as close as about 20 feet overhead. I was just below the top of an open hill, and they were being mobbed by about 20 crows just over the crest. Must have been something rotten on the other side! Turkey Vultures are supposedly expanding their range north along the east coast. I'm pretty sure we didn't have them around here 10 years ago. Now I see them nearly every time I climb the local hills. chris