I’ve Got Turkeys For Neighbors

A few days ago Helaine celled from the front door. She was gazing at something never seen in Flushing. A flock of wild turkeys was exploring the neighborhood.

I don’t know how smart or dumb turkeys are, but at last view they were heading toward the house of a neighbor who has a yearly pig roast.

I am not a country boy. We had no yard. We had no garden. The last part of my commute home was an elevator to the fifth floor.

Our home in the Mount Carmel section of Hamden is the antithesis of my childhood home apartment! Now, on my way home from work, I see more animals (by far) than people!

A few days ago Helaine called from the front door. She was gazing at something never seen in Apartment 5E. A flock of wild turkeys was exploring the neighborhood.

I don’t know how smart or dumb turkeys are, but at last view they were heading toward the house of a neighbor who has a yearly pig roast. Stay thirsty my friends.

5 thoughts on “I’ve Got Turkeys For Neighbors”

  1. hey geoff, i’m in mt carmel as well…i used to see 30 of them last fall walking together, so far this year just ten or so, i see them walk as a group through my yard and then they hop single file into the woods. it definitely is pretty cool to watch, i wonder if i’m seeing the same ones!

  2. I’m sure that’s why they are hanging around the neighborhood. Typically it’s illegal to hunt or fire weapons amongst houses.

    I’ve had deer stand in my back yard in the city (Huntsville, Alabama)and browse–just trying to stay our of the woods and away from the fall hunters. I have live video of a Doe and a fawn that visited one time. As a guy that knew many subsistence hunters, it drove me nuts to see an 8-point buck and a group of does just standing there and chewing their cud in peace during hunting season…and my buddies were just as amazed/frustrated. Hunting was how they fed their families. Since the deer were deep in the city, the deer were totally safe from everything but traffic and cars…

    Wild turkeys are typically a heck of a lot smarter and sneakier than the domestic ones…they have to be smart to survive in the wild and avoid being dinner for some predator.. We had many Foxes and Raccoons in our yard as well–the dog generally ignored all the wild animal traffic, thankfully.

  3. My Turkey Story

    I was sitting on my deck in Shelton. Suddenly there was a lot of noise and a local cat was chasing a big wild turkey around my yard. Never saw a turkey here before. Running, and squawking, and flapping wings with the cat on his tail. I yelled at the cat, but I think the turkey held him off for the most part. The cat takes off. The turkey limps around my yard. Hurt leg I guess, maybe from the cat. He continues to make noise, honking turkey noises. I wonder why he does this. The cat will know where he is. The honks sound forlorn, like maybe he is looking for the rest of his flock. Gradually he quiets down until he is mostly quiet. Then he makes a quiet peaceful little jabber. Across the yard comes this tiny fledgling, about the size of a child’s shoe. The fledge falls in under her tail, and they quietly move together on out of my yard.

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