Turkey!

[magid]

I walking down Broadway St, almost opposite the Cambridge Center Marriot, when I noticed a man taking a picture of a motionless wild turkey. I didn't remember there being a full-color statue there... and moments later, it resumed grubbing through the still-green grass. A wild turkey! In Cambridge! In Kendall Square! Wow. Today I regret that I'm usually not photographically enabled.

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[zzbottom.livejournal.com]

In an oddly sort-of related note. I just switched to my friends page from researching the secondary market value of figural Wild Turkey-brand bourbon figural decanters.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I did a Google image search, just to be sure it was a turkey (yeah, lame, but the last time I saw a wild turkey (read: a whole bird, not in the freezer case), it was years ago, and not at all close up), and of course there were some pictures of bourbon bottles. None of them in any interesting decanter shapes, though.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Well, wild turkeys were blocking up traffic in JP last month, so be careful.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Wow.

This one didn't seem to mind me being less than a couple of yards away, and was apparently traveling solo. Plus, it's much more difficult to block pedestrian traffic :-).

[ckd]

That's the relatively-famous Kendall Square Turkey, that is.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Neat-o. Mr. Gobbles is still there three years later. I wonder whether he'll find a mate.

From the link: "turkeys follow electrical wires, rivers, and parks into urban areas." Rivers and parks, I can see, but the electrical wires part seems odd. Do they look for electrical wires? It's not as if they'd perch on them like pigeons; the wires wouldn't support them.

[ceo]

Think power line cuts. Railroad lines likewise often make convenient non-road corridors for various beasties.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ah! That makes sense. I was thinking ones along streets, which wouldn't make a turkey jump for joy, I'd assume.