It has been a banner week for local wildlife sightings - Sunday, I saw a Painted Turtle in the street near my mum-in-law's, so I stopped my car and "herded" her over to the grass, toward the river. On the way home, a young turkey - maybe one of last year's chicks, crossed the street in front of me. Then yesterday, Paul thought he heard the neighbor, afterwards realized it was Mama Turkey with 9-12 little chicks all going this way and that, they were in our yard from almost an hour all told. Then today, I was talking with a neighbor, and a very young chipmunk dashed past us and across the street under a car, and then when I went up the hill to the kitchen door, it must have been a sibling chipmunk dashed off the other way. They were about half the mass of an adult chippie, but almost as long, and their fur colors were quite rich.
No pictures of any of this, wild critters don't hold still for photo ops, and most of the time the turkeys were in our yard they were in the shrubs and lilacs, so you wouldn't have seen much had Paul managed a picture.
