Turkeys take to cities, towns

[NYVet]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/23/turkeys_take_to_cities_towns/


BROOKLINE - On a recent afternoon, Kettly Jean-Felix parked her car on Beacon Street in Brookline, fed the parking meter, wheeled around to go to the optician and came face to face with a wild turkey.

The turkey eyed Jean-Felix. Jean-Felix eyed the turkey. It gobbled. She gasped. Then the turkey proceeded to follow the Dorchester woman over the Green Line train tracks, across the street, through traffic, and all the way down the block, pecking at her backside as she went.

"This is so scary," Jean-Felix said, finally taking refuge inside Cambridge Eye Doctors in Brookline's bustling Washington Square. "I cannot explain it."




NY Vet comment- I like Wild Turkey, straight.
Oh wait, wrong Wild Turkey. Nevermind...

[alfredo]

1. You could use it in a marinade.

the cook should always be well marinated before hitting the kitchen.

[Skidmore]

2. We have about 20 wild turkeys that roam around the general

area of our little group of villages and taunt the hunters regularly. I've seen grown men practically weep when one of them shakes their wattle and strolls back in to the woods, which is also a preserve. It warms the cockles of my heart and brings a smile to to my lips.

[cali]

3. I adore wild turkeys!

Franklin had it right. Ever see about 20 of them in a tree? It's such an amazing sight?

[NYVet]

4. Only 20?

Fort Drum NY probably has about 6 or 7 times that running around. Traffic stops while they cross the road.

Personally, I think that they taste better than farm grown turkey.

[Skidmore]

7. It could be more than 20. They just might come out in

groups of 20. LOL! I'm sure there are more around, but those wild turkeys all look alike.

[msongs]

5. TURKEY invades US (forget invading Iraq) nt

[xchrom]

6. ok -- i live in oakland cali -- and i have a wild turkey in my hood.

this spring she paraded up and down the street where i live with her brood.

[Tesha]

8. We moved to our hilltop about eight years ago...

We moved to our hilltop northwest of Boston about eight years ago.
A couple or four years ago, a red-tailed hawk showed up. Then two.
Now we have at least four, probably all of one family.

And if you think they're impressive cruising around on the updrafts,
they're even more impressive sitting at the bird bath on your front
lawn or on the back of a chair on the deck near the bird feeders.
(It's the cycle of life, you see. We feed prodigious numbers of
little birds and the occasional chipmunk and mouse and they,
in turn, well...)

And then there are the turkey vultures, of which we also have at
least four in the neighborhood. And the itinerant great blue heron,
whom we (unintentionally) feed with the very large goldfish from
our garden pond.

Yeah, there's a lot going wrong with our poor planet, but at
least a few things are going right. The long term effect of
banning many pesticides is that we're seeing the return
of the big raptors and other large, top-of-the-food chain
predatory birds.

Tesha

[NeedleCast]

9. Hehe, City Slickers.

[soothsayer]

10. I've never seen wild turkeys around here until this year. For the past

several months I've seen LOTS of them (out in the VA countryside a bit---about 40 miles from Arlington, VA). Not sure when black powder season starts, but I hope they can hide! They're lovely.