I was able to get some pics finally last weekend of some Rio turkeys in the central coast of California.

Camera was an Olympus 2100 UZ with a Olympus B300 1.7x tele lens.

I found a flock of turkeys on a private ranch where I've filmed them before. No one can hunt these turkeys so I can also call them to get them fired up for some strut pics. Here is one tom in the shade of a group of trees in late afternoon.



One of the jakes



It had been raining for several days and the toms had shut dwn pretty good. I tried just about all my calls trying to get a reponse. Finally one old tom had enough of my fighting purrs and he jumped up to chase there 2 poor jakes around who just happended to be nearby. One tom finally gobbled when the ranch dog ran up and startled him.











[ 05-05-2003, 08:58: Message edited by: spectr17 ]

Nice pics. Turkeys have really made a comeback, at least in Texas where I live. Back 30 years ago or so, they were practically non-existant in the Hill Country where I hunted, extremely wary. Now we see lots of birds, even with all the development and hunting pressure, very encouraging.

Hey Jesse,

Nice pics......thanks for sharing them. I am looking forward to using my last tag.

Bob

Couldn't you get any closer?

Real nice pictures, thanks for posting them.

What's the specs on that lens?

Surely you don't mean it's a 300mm F1.7?

Rick.

Sorry rick3foxes,

That's a typo, the B300 is a 1.7x tele. About 300mm worth of tele in 35mm camera speak.