Welcome to Knitting Pipeline, the Nitting Podcast with a Celtic Fire.

Here is your host, Nitter and Piper, Paula, recorded from Central Illinois USA. say.

Hello, welcome to episode one of Knitting Pipeline.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

I have several things I'm going to share with you, so let's get started.

Nature Notes We had some strange things going on this week around the house. On Tuesday I heard

a pounding noise that sounded like construction in the neighborhood.

I thought maybe someone was hammering and I was just going about my business and doing things here in the house and then I realized that the sound sort of sounded like it was on our house.

So I began to investigate and found out that one of our resident male turkeys, well that lives in the

woods behind us, was pecking intermittently on a window that is very close to ground level.

He evidently thought that his reflection was another male turkey, so he would peck and then he'd

wait a while and then he'd peck again. I was kind of excited at first I got my

camera and I went down there and I thought maybe taking a photo would scare him away but it didn't and then I raised up the shade and I took more photos and that didn't scare him and then I thought well I don't really want him pecking on the

window because it was beginning to get like he was pecking pretty hard. I pounded on the window

with my fist and that just encouraged him more because he thought

that I was the reflection making the noise.

So I talked to a friend on the phone and she said they can break windows. I've heard of them actually

hitting windows and patio doors and causing them to just break.

So I went outside and tried to scare him away by just clapping and he didn't even look at me.

He was totally absorbed by his reflection if a predator had come along and there aren't too many

predators around here that are big enough to take down a turkey but maybe a coyotes or foxes can. He was just totally unconcerned with me. I managed to come down and finally kind of scare him away by getting fairly close and the females are very skittish. If they're out in the

yard or the back here, we don't have much of a yard. The woods pretty much comes up all the way to the

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