Oh durn, I was afraid of that, and did try to prev

Posted some pics on a blog to calm things down, but suddenly the blog is vanished.

Okay, repeat posting for those who missed the pics.

While I was typing there I heard one of my cats yowling at something that was also making a noise we don't have a word for, birdlike, but not a nice sound at all. WTF is that? So I finished my response, typos and all, grabbed a camera and went to go look.

As I neared the door the yowling changed to just a growl and some hisses, and their had been no cat screams, so I knew a pistol probably wasn't needed so I left it in the holster bolted to the inside door.

Through the outer door glass, this is what I saw.



This is what the cat was now staring at. I figure one of them must have been much closer when I first heard the yowling and what turned out to be the noise a Tom makes when he is feeling hostile.



My opening the outer door for a better camera focus made noise of course and the hen scurried away while the Tom played a rear guard and slowly retreated. I have at least two flocks roaming around here and this is the smaller Tom. The other (older I think) is about 1/3 again as large. I note the two Toms do not seem to be antagonistic to each other as there have been days when I see both flocks happily co-mingling in one of my meadows clucking away and pecking at stuff on the ground. Usually one Tom stands guard on one side and the other watches the other side. I know most of their noises, but today was the first time I had ever heard an incipient attack warning noise (analogous to the cat's warning yowl I suspect) from a Tom turkey. An interesting noise and I suspect quite beyond human throat capability.

Tom (suicidally, once he is in season) playing rear guard and slowly retreating from me.



The cat calmed down and came inside and I returned to life on CS.