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Message: <blockquote data-quote="geezer77" data-source="post: 4231186" data-attributes="member: 49872"><p>The large flocks come around in the evening once in a while too, but usually in bunches of 25 or 30. Our favorite everyday visitors are five big long-bearded toms that hang out together near the house and always roost in the creek bottom behind us. They know us and our vehicles well, and will readily approach within 6-10 feet, but unfamiliar people or vehicles make them instantly disappear. For some reason they really hate delivery trucks, and get very aggressive with them. Drivers have called me a few times to be rescued because they were surrounded and couldn't get out of their truck to deliver a package. A couple of times a driver has just thrown the package out the window and backed out and left. These five also seem to have seen too many Soprano episodes, because they seem to expect a few handfuls of hen scratch every morning as protection payment. If we are late with it they will gang up near the front door and hurl what sound suspiciously like turkey curses until we pay up. Other than trails of poop on the patio when they peek in the windows (they are very nosy) and an occasional bloody fight amongst themselves during the rut, they have been kind of fun to have around.</p></blockquote><p></p>