The recent snow buildup and high roadside plow mounds have made things a bit difficult for our wild turkeys. The snow is too deep in many places for them to scratch through it and sometimes they have to use their breasts as a plow to roam from here to there.
They seem to be conserving energy by doing less foraging and more roosting in dense conifer stands, while self-heating by fluffing themselves up to trap insulating air around their bodies. They’re tough.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 28, 2026.)