North American Wild Turkeys Can Fly high and fast In the Snow
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2019
- Just decided to take a frozen snowy blowy winter walk in my yard and came across these wild turkeys that were up in the birch and grab-apple trees as they are surviving our polar vortex snow situation.
I got as close as I could and took slow motion sequences to show their powerful flight capabilities.
At the end of the video, I stood up and they all flew in different directions only to regroup later on. Two flocks came through and the larger group definitely drove off the first group of about 12 birds.
I think my camera had enough of the cold and the screen just went black while I was capturing their flight away from the trees.
Back inside, an hour later and all was fine and full function was restored.
This was shot with a Sony AX-700 at 960 fps with the final sequence at 60 fps. The snow is deep and getting deeper... woodland slow motion meditation/coffee break video coming up next. There's just something extraordinary about the winter woods.
I hope you enjoy. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
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Beautiful video and it’s about Turkeys 🦃! I love your videos. Just wonderful . The photography is awesome.
WOW just WOW that’s amazing videography!! Thank you for the link.
Glad you liked it! I really got the jump on them :)
B. Franklin was right, should have been the National bird.
Amazing video footage. So beautiful Frederick.
Beautiful
Amazing 👍
I am new from Somewhere in the Caribbean,, Subscribed..👍..love your videos,, keep them coming,, especially the 🐝's..lol..I would like to enter into bee keeping this year hopefully..
Nicely done.
What? I thought the Polar Vortex was not hitting until tomorrow. Now I am off to check the weather.
We're just on the leading edge Carlos.. the main body will fully engulf us this week. :)
Now that is a big rafter
Three different groups came through, each driving off the other. This was the largest at the end. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I thought I’d hear David Attenborough speaking while watching this. Nice!
I debated narrating this... but felt my voice would ruin it :) Thanks for watching!
Praying for all wildlife surviving these insane temps
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The difference here vs there is we have wild pigs and too many coyotes so the wild turkey population is much less, IDK what those trees were, but obviously they produced some type of berry or some winter feed for the turkeys, back in the day when I had a 225 head beef cow/calf feeder herd and fed 1500# round bales of hay inside hay rings, I'd move the hay spot around about every 3 bales to keep down parasites and the turkeys would scratch through the remains to get the seed shed from the hay, over a 6 year period with no turkeys, they began with 1 Tom and 2 hens, they moved into the area of my cattle and a friend's of mine hay barn across the road to nest and raise several flocks till we had around 50, but they're clanish here so you usually never see but around 25 or so feeding together, and yes when I'd put out with Tractor I'd get to see them take flight over tops of planted pines on the property to the south and fly well over a 1/4 mile where they normally roosted, as we'd fed out his hay in the spring we'd aways find where these hens nested and raised their young on top round hay bales stacked 3 teirs high well out of pigs and coyotes reach. For several years we'd keep a bag of chicken scratch feed in his barn and throw little out just to keep them around.
I should have said wild hogs have very keen sense of smell, some say even higher than a bloodhound, if they smell a nesting turkey, they will run her off the nest and eat the eggs.
So beautiful! The music is lovely too, who is it?
Got my answer at the end of the video! So interesting
Extraordinary! ! Superb skilled & keen focus filming wildlife all around! & Quite a harem😄W.T🦃are able to lift off straight up&fly amazing 60mph speeds, surrounded in Cuyahoga national Valley WT🦃 are common! I lose myself easily hours to days where nature is concerned, (father trait)travelled all thru Canada for months at a time with dad🎣😊🦌🦆🦅🦉🐿🐦🦢🕊ty again for your mesmerizing vid⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😌👏🏼🙌🏼
Truly beautiful. But brrrr!
Think its acoustic version of.pearl jams "the sun"
It’s interesting to watch how a bird has mastered the ability to take off from the ground and propel themselves into the air and take flight. There is an initial jump then the wings beat vigorously as they climb through the air virtually defying gravity! Absolutely fascinating!
AND, when trying to get slow-motion sequences, which you can only do 4-6 seconds at a time, you have to predict when one is about to fly. You're right, they suddenly hunch down low in the snow before giving a push up and take flight. Such large birds lifting off is a joy to observe. I wish I had been able to get closer, but they are very alert and not at all easy to creep up on. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Wow, so many. Amazing. What a heavy snow but in the slow motion it doesn't seem like it. Ouch to the one that hit the tree. I thought she was going to fall.
I was kneeling in a 3 foot deep snow drift for an hour just to get a few sequences, they all came in and started foraging. I eventually had to stand up when my fingers were going numb and tried to get them flying off... :) it was fun all around. Thanks as always for watching and commenting :)
Should shoot Canon..lol..they dont freeze up..beekeeper/photographer here...love your videos...Turkey are not graceful flyers in the middle of hardwoods...C-130s snacking branches lol....thanks for your videos....I'm in WNY...lake effect and vortex here...hope my bees do well.
Thanks, Mike, ya, that camera just couldn't handle it, it's slowly recovering but is still flaky. At least I know its limits. Canon can't give me this high frame rate 960 fps. So, I'm stuck for now anyway :)
I used to see turkeys frequently, they would come across the street from their woods and eat apples that had fallen on the ground. I don't see them anymore, but at nite I can hear coyote in their woods...😕
Coyotes are why the turkeys roost high in the trees at night... there are always turkeys on watch spread out in every direction. Do you think your coyote population has taken out your turkeys?
@@FrederickDunn something took them out, I haven't seen a turkey for two years now. I suppose they could have just moved off to another patch of woods ? It's just that the turkeys disappeared about the time I started hearing the coyote.
@@snarkydinkfarm329 Wish you had some trail cameras out there!
@@FrederickDunn funny you should say that. I bought a trail cam that you very recently recommended. I'm on it...
@@snarkydinkfarm329 Awesome! Can't wait to see how it works for you!
didn't know that they fly but they should've been the national bird of usa
Ben Franklin wanted them as our National Symbol instead of the Eagle which he thought was simply a thief.
Just watch out for those awful Polar Rabbits!! They come streaming down from the north in these deadly polar vortices...ravaging everything in their path. The fleeing turkeys may have sensed the impending danger.
This is beautiful, if scary when thinking of the wildlife. I have been so praying for the bees, the beekeepers. Had a discussion with myself after that. No other people will be impacted? No other animal life? So now I am praying that the cold does no more than God's will, that the domestic life will be well cared for and sheltered, leaving safe areas for all wildlife who will be cared for by the angels. Thank you for the perfect video with which to contemplate and pray. And I have been praying for you and your bees and chickens and all the animals on your land. (That was the step between all bees and beekeepers and all life). A polar vortex... do you know if it is just our continent being hit? or is Europe and Asia feeling it too?
P.S.
What are the turkey's doing? I'd think they would be under some pine tree with low hanging branches imitating the bees!
Thank you Julie, the turkeys have a daily routine and a several mile trek which they travel twice a day. This is how I knew where to position myself to wait for them. They have a broad diet and their routine includes a trip to water sources. At night fall, they all ascend into the treetops of coniferous trees and spend the night. :) always nice to see your comments!
They're fine, turkeys have been surviving winters worse than this for thousands of years, if not a few million. It's nothing new to them. They are big heavy birds that fatten up before winter hits. Animals are smarter than we are, they know what the weather is going to be and they know what to do to make it through.
Send just a little bit of that down here( that's all itll take to shut everything down down here) stay outta school for a cpl of days lol.
It's minus 6 this morning! I'd be more than happy to share Jane!
@@FrederickDunn eeekkkk we're having 57o today but says we're supposed to have snow tonight guess we'll see
lil too slow mo
Ok then...
Your turkeys are nothing like ours, don’t think ours could fly if they tried x
That's weird, most wild turkeys roost high in the trees around here. Maybe yours are afraid of heights?