Pack it in – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Smoke Phase Wild Turkey Hen Photos

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-21T15:52:57-05:00April 3rd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, female, footprints, forest, garbage, grasses, hen, junipers, Meleagris gallopavo, morphs, mountains, mutations, Pack it in, pack it out, plumage variation, recessive genes, smoke phase, smokey phase, smoky-gray phase, snow, soda can, spring, trash, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, Wild Turkey|

Someone at sometime had tossed a soda can into the junipers and the Wild Turkey hen walked right in front of it during the few seconds she was out in the open.