It is not unusual to see a few birds roaming urban neighborhoods, especially those near parks and nature preserves. On the evening the following photos were taken, I encountered seven birds in one end of a nearby park -- a few days earlier there had been fourteen. I sat on the edge of the vacant basketball court and watched a while as they ranged between the edge of the park (coming within a few yards of me) and a neighboring backyard's birdfeeders. Urban wild turkeys have grown used to the presence of pesky humans, and will generally leave you alone so long as you leave them alone. I enjoy seeing them during my walks, and they are so ungainly that watching them run always makes me laugh.
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fascinating neighbors.
Beautiful! Humans can be such fools when it comes to our treatment of animals. Conservation of both habitat and wildlife is so important.
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Interesting neighbors you have indeed! :)
Nice neighbors - are you going to have one over for dinner on Thanksgiving?
Kelley: I think so anyway, LOL.
Helena: Humans definitely win for foolish and irreverent behavior. No other species destroys their habitat the way homo sapien does, and I saw an article yesterday that the world has lost half its wildlife in forty years.
Thanks, BK! ☺
Sue: *Gasp* You did not just say that! While there will be turkey served at dinner, it won't be from the 'hood. The DNR will grant 'trap-and-release' permits to relocate nuisance birds, but you can't legally kill them inside city limits. If these urban birds only knew how lucky they were during turkey season!
They are a funny bird to watch. I didn't realize they'd been eliminated in your state and reintroduced.
Humans are good at destroying things.
Anita: Sad, isn't it, the things we do to our environment? I'm glad they were brought back to Wisconsin.
We have a few wild turkeys out here but they're usually in the wild and not near development.
Jennifer: That's too bad -- but then, a lot of your wildlife has been threatened by drought and wildfires in recent years.
Around here we mostly get roving packs of deer.
We have deer, too, they're just not as visible. I did find a hoof print outside my front window one winter.
My neighbors are real turkey's, too...just not the bird kind. :-D
Love the shots!
Jana: ROFL...I have some of those type of turkeys, too. ☺
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