Happy Thanksgiving to all the US owl fans here, and a big thank you to everyone around the world that visits here.
I'm thankful I've gotten the opportunity to learn new things about animals with you every day for the last few months. We've been able to teach each other so many things, both about the places we're from, and places most of us will probably never see.
We've gotten closer to each other, no matter where we are physically, and hopefully we feel a closer bond with our fellow creatures we share this world with.
Also a huge thanks to all the animal rescue and rehab workers. They work around the clock, entirely reliant on donations, and it is a tough job. Only about 30% of animals that make it to a rescue will survive. It must take a big heart and an iron will to deal with that amount of loss in a daily basis.
I always forget turkey and grouse roost in trees too. I typically see then grazing for food. It's a big surprise when you come upon one in the woods and it scares the hell out of you.
My woods don't look like this ! I'm not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed.
I lack knowledge in the field of hen. I just learn what a grouse is. It looks like the child of a turkey and a guinea fowl.
It's funny, I've never actually gotten a good look at one, just been scared by them when one flys away when I walk by. I looked them up, and I've only ever thought of them like in the picture above, but it seems they puff up like this:
I do like the guinea fowl too!
France is a small country in size and it is very urbanised. Of course there is poultries and big birds in the woods but if you don't look for them, you won't notice them. You don't just get scare by a group of turkey (or whatever european equivalent) in a tree. And I am neither a hunter or bird watcher. Maybe, I should be more observant.