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Watch aggressive wild turkey take on traffic in Sacramento neighborhood
The Sacramento Bee ^ | February 15th, 2018 | Unattributed

Posted on 02/15/2018 6:42:01 PM PST by Mariner

This wild turkey wasn’t too pleased with traffic on Riverside Boulevard in Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood on Thursday, Feb. 15th.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Humor; Local News; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: california; riversideboulevard; sacramento
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To: Olog-hai

“The one I scared into flight went straight up vertically about twenty feet”

That’s the impressive jump I was referring to.

Have you ever seen one fly 50 yards?

Yes, they very often roost in trees at night, and build their nests there.


21 posted on 02/15/2018 7:14:48 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Strac6

They think the “bumper tap” is the female loving them back. Then they try to mate with your car even more aggressively.


22 posted on 02/15/2018 7:14:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We have mourning doves and crows.

Hopefully the environment is diverse enough to support them both.

We have so many birds. Even the magpies have a strong population.


23 posted on 02/15/2018 7:17:22 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

While hiking, I found one sitting on a fence rail last weekend, about 6 feet off the ground. That shocked me because, as you say, you never see them fly. When I got near, he jumped / fluttered to the ground. More like a rock falling through the air than flying.


24 posted on 02/15/2018 7:17:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That seems odd to me. Guess it needs to be more wooded for crows and doves to coexist. I have no shortage of mourning doves, American crows and ravens by me.


25 posted on 02/15/2018 7:17:53 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Not sure why the turkey and coyote populations have soared and why they have moved into our neighborhoods.”

Maybe it’s all those lions in the hills!


26 posted on 02/15/2018 7:18:35 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

“some of the big ones dropping a thousand pounds of acorns every year.”

Wow! Our neighbors across the street have a prolific oak. It was a volunteer that showed up when we moved in 35 years ago and it is now huge! It really drops acorns all over the road in the fall and the cars drive through them “crunch, crunch, crunch.” Acorn pulp all over the road. Every spring, I pull up about 20 that have sprouted in our yard thanks to the squirrels planting them for us.


27 posted on 02/15/2018 7:19:53 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mariner

I’m headed over to the Merced National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday on an Audubon Society Excursion. Lots of Sandhill Cranes and White Fronted Geese still there.


28 posted on 02/15/2018 7:21:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mariner

Yes, I’ve seen them fly distances of 50 yards and further. They do prefer to walk during the day, though. There are some that don’t fly too high when crossing interstates, though.

I’ve seen harems of as many as twenty, although they can get up to fifty hens.


29 posted on 02/15/2018 7:22:21 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Mariner

30 posted on 02/15/2018 7:23:32 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’ve got an old one in the schoolyard down the street.

The trunk is at least 8 feet in diameter and the tree is about 100ft tall.

Simply majestic.

It would be enough lumber to build two houses or a thousand pieces of furniture.

As long as your saw holds up.

Very, very dense and heavy wood.


31 posted on 02/15/2018 7:23:40 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s interesting. I saw my first Mourning Dove on a trip to the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge and Delavan Wildlife Refuge a couple weeks ago. But they have sure disappeared from around here on the Peninsula.

Crows love to raid other bird nests and eat their eggs. We are quite wooded here - the “urban forest.”


32 posted on 02/15/2018 7:23:57 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Near Atwater?

I used to hunt ducks there.

Millions of ‘em.


33 posted on 02/15/2018 7:24:39 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

They are gorgeous, aren’t they? Unfortunately, Sudden Oak Death is killing a lot of them over here. Do you have that disease over there?


34 posted on 02/15/2018 7:24:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Larry Lucido

That’s one fine, underrated Bourbon.

The best in my book.


35 posted on 02/15/2018 7:25:29 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Sudden Oak Death is killing a lot of them over here”

I think most of the “sudden oak death” is the dropping water table from the drought.

The Valley Oak will send a tap root all the way down to the water table, sometime twice as deep as the tree is high. That’s how they are able to survive in our Mediterranean climate of intermittent rain.

If the water table suddenly drops, the tree will most certainly die. Quickly.


36 posted on 02/15/2018 7:28:59 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He thinks the vehicles are other toms.


37 posted on 02/15/2018 7:31:28 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

I hadn’t thought about that. So he’s fighting off competitors for his sweetheart?


38 posted on 02/15/2018 7:45:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Freaking feathered road menaces.
I’ve seen the damage accidentally hitting one can do to most modern plastic and crumple zone vehicles.
Watched three throw themselves into the side of a vehicle repeatedly.


39 posted on 02/15/2018 7:47:04 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Mariner
SOD is an actual disease and one vector is people walking by the infected trees. "Sudden Oak Death is a forest disease caused by the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum." No doubt drought stressed trees are more susceptible.

See SOD FAQ.

"To date, all of the natural areas found with infection are cool, moist, and frequently foggy. Forests with disease are made up of a mixture of host and associated host plants, and often have either tanoak or California bay laurel trees present."

40 posted on 02/15/2018 7:49:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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