[Leica] Re: Flying turkeys

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On May 9, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Jim wrote:

> I laughed at the turkey episode myself, but turkeys can fly for short
> distances.  In my working days, we drove a two-lane blacktop lined  
> with tall
> pine trees.  I spooked a group of wild turkeys on the roadside  
> once, and
> they cleared the pine trees from a standing takeoff.  They can  
> certainly fly
> if provoked.


Wild turkeys fly.
Butterball turkeys don't.

Larry Z