{"id":4487,"date":"2014-01-01T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T02:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2014-01-01T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T02:18:13","slug":"wild-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4487","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flock of wild turkeys was grazing in the corn field across the road from the home farm today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4488\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wild-turkeys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wild-turkeys-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Turkeys\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wild-turkeys-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wild-turkeys-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wild-turkeys.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Turkeys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They&#8217;re skittish, and as soon as I opened the truck door to take a picture they took off.  There&#8217;s at least 30 of them in this flock.<\/p>\n<p>Early this spring I was planting the corn in that field and came across a hen turkey sitting on a nest in the middle of the field.  She took off when I got close and I stopped and counted the eggs, 13 of them.<\/p>\n<p>I carefully went around the nest with corn planter and later in the year I saw the hen turkey with a group of poults.  I couldn&#8217;t count them as they darted around, but it looked like most of the 13 had hatched.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty obsessive about planting corn, but I don&#8217;t mind having a wobble in the corn rows around a turkey nest to get to watch these birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flock of wild turkeys was grazing in the corn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}