When I first saw all those birds I thought it was geese. I got out my binos and counted birds. I was shocked.
If you look at the picture of the rooster, he is an old bird (see the big down turned beak) that I have been chasing around. He taunts me by coming into the yard to eat grass. I went out one morning last fall to hunt him and didn't see him.....that was until I was walking down the street, gun open and saw him feeding in my front yard! He went vertical, straight up and over my two story home, sailed over to the neighbors pasture then jumped up on one of the railroad ties that he has as fence posts and cackled for a while.
I saw him one day sail across the field out back and slam into a red tail hawk that was perched on one of the fence posts. Feathers flew everywhere and off the hawk went screeching. The old fellow hopped up on the post and cackled for an hour or more.
He is a tough, mean old bird. If I get him, I am having him stuffed.