Surprise of surprises, our preschoolers were entertained by a flock of Wild Turkeys appearing out of the Pilchuck Tree Farm woods. Where they came from, we do not know. 
Where they were going, they appeared not to know. Although found on San Juan Island, the range of Cascadia’s 3 subspecies is typically east of the Cascade Crest. (The 3 are Eastern, Merriam’s and Rio Grande, the latter in the Blue Mountains at the corner of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon’s shared borders. Eastern are the most common, with the Merriam’s from the mountains and canyons of America’s Four Corners (a shared point of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners
https://www.chewelahindependent.com/archives/wdfw-q-a-why-do-we-have-so-many-wild-turkeys/article_dff17874-26c3-5d61-a434-952148a9cf3e.html
https://www.birdweb.org/birdweb/bird/wild_turkey
http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/animals/birds/wild-turkeys.aspx
https://interpretivecenter.org/wild-turkeys/
https://wdfw.medium.com/turkey-troubles-wdfw-may-have-solutions-380fe6a9d026
If you were to stand at the center of the Four Corners region, you might be in:
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