The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency and Wagner Brothers stocked wild turkeys on our mountain properties several years ago. The turkeys were trapped in middle Tennessee, transported to Dunlap, and released on the mountain. In this photo, I am releasing one of these beautiful birds.

The wild turkeys are plentiful on our mountain properties. Although I see them every day, each sighting still induces a sense of excitement, fascination, and accomplishment.

Our new residents and their new families.

The baby turkeys (poults) search for insects under the watchful eyes of the mother hen.

Follow the leader! The young poults are voracious feeders and have been reported to eat over 3,000 insects a day.

Turkeys congregate into large flocks in the fall. Traveling the woodlands and meadows, they look for acorns and other foods.

Courtship behavior of the gobblers includes the gobbling call and the strut.

I keep a turkey call in my jeep and often get the gobblers to perform when I see them crossing the road.

Listening to the gobble of a wild turkey on a spring morning is one of the many amenities that nature provides for Greenfields.

Turkeys roost in large trees as high as possible. The males usually gobble before daylight prior to leaving their roost.

These handsome four are ready to call and strut their stuff at the next female encounter.