{"id":11160,"date":"2018-08-04T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2018-08-04T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T10:54:10","slug":"turkey-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Beard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11159\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11159\" data-attachment-id=\"11159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?attachment_id=11159\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?fit=2000%2C1802&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1802\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0251_polarr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?fit=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?fit=904%2C815&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?resize=904%2C815&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11159 size-full\" height=\"815\" width=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?resize=768%2C692&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?resize=1024%2C923&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?resize=904%2C815&amp;ssl=1 904w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_0251_polarr.jpg?w=1808&amp;ssl=1 1808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Turkey, Laudholm Farms, Wells Maine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I managed it, but I lived 70 years on planet Earth without noticing the beard on a Tom turkey. After seeing it my recent photos of a rafter (group) of Toms at Laudholm Farms in nearby Wells Maine, I had to Google it to make sure it was a real thing. It is. All Toms (and small percentage of hens) grow chest beards&#8230;modified feathers similar in texture to a horse&#8217;s tail&#8230;from their chests. Some say you can tell the age of a Tom by the length of its beard, and that they reach 8-10 inches, so this Tom is indeed a mature male. (Hens&#8217; beards, when they have them, are always shorter, a few inches at most.) One more strange thing about this very strange bird. Sony RX10iv at 600mm. Program mode. 1\/500th @ f4 @ ISO 250. 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