Wild Turkey

 A rafter of feral turkeys seems to have staked a claim to our yard. We sometimes surprise them as we come up the drive or step out of the door. It is clear that in our absence they explore every path we have cleared--their tracks are everywhere, even up on the deck of the workshop!

(If they are wild creatures, the collective noun is "flock," but farmyard ones cluster in "gaggles" or "rafters." Ours former farmyard turkeys turned out into the wild....)