Turkey Gobblers

 ... or as my late cat Benny would say, "Turkey Cobblers."  

These are juvenile wild turkeys, about 4-5 months old.  At this age they are called jakes and jennies.   At this age they flock together for safety and learning how to be turkeys.  This flock is likely made up of jennies, perhaps a few jakes, but the directional flocking is jenny behavior. 

The Sidewalk Strutters 

They were headed to the lawn on the other side of the wall.  They eat seeds, nuts, berries, insects, and, here, the new growth of a mowed lawn!  Geese are crazy for that too, which is why you, or at least I, see flocks of geese on the newly mown park lawn.  

This street dead-ends, and I've seen this young flock from the other side of the houses on a busier street where there was no way to stop to photograph them.  As the crow flies they are just down the street from my house.  Not as the turkey flies, not yet, they are capable of short fast bursts of flight, like onto a wall, or tree branch to roost for the night,  but not the quarter mile the adults can fly.  Adults prefer to hang around ground level anyway, except at night when they roost in trees.