This article is ridiculously funny...(did I say silly?).
Yep
I think we have a few here in rural areas. A few would be welcome in my yard, but maybe I’d get more than I bargained for. I’d love to watch and photograph some. We are not Massachusetts, and there would be so much squawking, that they would do something to get rid of them like they do our deer.
A Massachusetts turkey on its way to Court for a license.
Do whatever it takes to make 'em look like this!
Then, before the PITA, er...PETA crowd finds out, you must eat the evidence.
My bet is that some evening I could grab one, kill it, get it to the basement, plucked and cleaned in less than 15 minutes. The next day - turkey and all the trimmings! I have plucked a few gobblers and the only feathers that gave me trouble were the flight feathers in the wings. For this one I would simply lop the wings off. Stuff all the evidence in a black plastic bag and deposit it in a dumpster.
I spent a weekend a while ago in my state’s bow hunting class. If I still lived in MA I could get by with just a pair of gloves and an axe.
“The real danger facing us, or a good source of protein?”
Well, I can tell you the flock of wild turkeys that visit me will be ‘protein’ if I get hungry.
We really enjoy them, but they have miles of natural habitat to keep them company. I did enjoy watching them chase the cat.
I see wild turkeys from time to time along the old rail trail (actually the old trolley line between Princeton and Trenton). Never been attacked, and besides if you charge them, they usually fly away. Yes, wild turkeys CAN fly.
There are turkeys and there are turkeys.
Wild turkeys seem to be the subjet here.
How about human turkeys? Would you rather soar with the eagles or fly with the turkeys?
A little off center I know, but I couldn’t help myself.
KENNEDY VOTERS!
Area I grew up in is within sight of the NYC skyline. My parents had a flock of 13 turkeys walking around two weeks ago.
The turkeys fully comprehend the dangers of motor vehicles, when they hear one coming, one of them puts out a warning call, they all move to the side of the road, it looks like kids playing stick ball. And as soon as the car passes, the turkeys continue on their way across the neighborhood roads.
Here’s how to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCCpRfB5aUU
damn things... some mornings it's like running the gauntlet on the way to work!
WKRP not withstanding, (wild) turkeys CAN fly, though they prefer not to fly very far, mostly into trees for roosting.
Well, one day I was riding my Ducati down a road, minding my own business, and a turkey just happened to fly across the road, at right about head level. I just managed to duck low enough to avoid hitting it with my head. It was quite scary.
We’ve got tons of the critters around Kansas City. In fact, we’ve got quite a bit of other wildlife around here too. Stuff that you wouldn’t expect around here. Cougars and armadillos have turned up in the area. Now if we could just get the cougars to eat the armadillos!
Mark
