FOOD & DRINK
Outdoors: After a bad year, Michigan hunter gets surprise gobbler
With a spring that is bringing rainy and chilly topsy-turvy weather, turkey hunters in Ohio and Michigan nevertheless have fought the elements and found success. One Michigan hunter who I know through an online community found a surprise with her hulk of a bird: three beards. Heidi Bambach, 62, got excited as she saw two of them while walking up to her downed prize on her family’s farmland outside of Port Austin. It wasn’t until she was processing the turkey later that she discovered the third beard. Biologists say about 2 percent of turkeys will have multiple beards. The beard is a rope-like strand — actually modified feathers — that hangs from the neck area and makes the bird legal during the spring season.
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