Fowl Weather

[gnomi]

Seen crossing perpendicular to our building this afternoon around 4 PM, as lucretia_borgia was dropping me off:

Turkey!
Again, Turkey!

Oddly enough, as lucretia_borgia remarked when we spotted said turkey, I'd just been in conversation not ten minutes previous with a few members of our shul regarding the population of wild turkeys seen around Brookline and Brighton.

Comments

[betra.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that if you are seeing them in new places, someone has screwed up their normal habitat.

We have turkey sighting all the time here thanks to the multitudes of McMansions popping up all over the place. Turkeys...could they be the coyotes of the east coast?

Soo we will be overrun with the silly things, pecking through our gardens and tearing down bird feeders...oh the horror...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

We'd seen them in other neighborhoods around town, but never in our neighborhood.

And, oddly, the only real construction going on around here is in places where the turkeys wouldn't live (along the main street through our area and on the lot behind us, where a house already sits). I'm wondering if Mr. Turkey was looking for post-Passover sales, as we live down the block from our local kosher grocery store. :-)

[betra.livejournal.com]

Macaroons. Definately.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Aha! So now we know what to do with all the macaroons that farwing and others don't want (http://gnomi.livejournal.com/310606.html?thread=1914702#t1914702).

[betra.livejournal.com]

What? Someone who doesn't want macaroons? That is ...well it just isn't kosher. (smirk)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::snerk::

I actually got through all of Passover this year without consuming a single macaroon. They were available, but I usually ended up with fruit over other sweet items.

[betra.livejournal.com]

When I see Chocolate Chip Macaroons? Game over, man. GAME OVER! I am all over those things.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heee! Now I know your Kryptonite. :-)

Not that I would ever use my powers for evil.

[betra.livejournal.com]

Oh, no...of COURSE not. Hey, wanna see the nifty plot of land I just bought on the moon?

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

Boston is totally native wild turkey habitat. Even if they end up living in parks and eating sandwiches from tourists, they were here first and are reclaiming their greatgrandparents' stomping grounds. For example, the ones living in the federal transportation building's grounds in Cambridge. Those ones are so tame they'll steal your lunch off the soccer fields without biting you in the process.

[betra.livejournal.com]

Oh no...seagull syndrome.

We have a lot of turkeys here but as far as I know they try to stay in the farmy areas and in the woods. They really don't want to deal with people. (Unlike some of the insane white tail deer that wander through parking lots and down the roads)

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

Seagulls are crazier. We've got 2 types up here, local grey ones and brown ones that started invading during the 80s. The brown ones will sit on your towel while they eat your food and flap their wings to keep you away. The grey ones just eat from trash cans.

[betra.livejournal.com]

Gulls will fly 2 inches from your face and make a grab for your sandwich. Crazy buggers

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wow! I hadn't realized we lived in the country now...

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Ha! We saw one on our front lawn this morning, less than ten feet from the house. But Himself informs me he's seen them around before, so this shouldn't be Odd. (But it was my first turkey here, so it was Odd for me!) We are in decidedly less settled area than you are, too. We also have deer, foxes, and hawks.

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

darthsatyr saw a turkey recently when we were driving to Edgewater. And my mom's place up in CT regularly sees flocks of the critters.

Wild turkeys make me happy.