I Have Seen It All

[blas]

Saturday morning, I saw our local crazy clan of tom turkeys wandering across the street to pick at bugs and make that annoying gobble noise.

The mail truck stopped by that particular complex, and when it went to take off again, one of the turkeys actually started chasing it, and continued after it!

Crazy things happen here.

[sarasquirrel]

i would have loved to see that! lol

[blas]

I thought I saw it all when it became a morning occurance to have to dodge them as soon as I got onto my street, because they are always in the middle of the road strutting their stuff.

It was a sight to see, that's all I can say. I am so glad no one was nearby, because a lot of people walk/jog and take their kids for walks around here, because there is a park nearby.

I pissed off a turkey to the point of him puffing up and spreading his wings at me, and that was because I wouldn't give him any of my candy bar. I'd hate to be the mailman if that truck had stalled out!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Large birds like that can mess you up. They don't play around. Do not underestimate the damage a pissed off goose-sized bird can do.

I encountered a pair of Canada Geese in the woods once, walking around with their kid (who was pretty tall and scary in his own right). I gave them the path and climbed through the brush to avoid them.

[Cat]

I love wild turkeys....see 'em often, find it amusing every time...esp the time I saw a lone tom strolling around a rather non-rural town.

On Mt Hale this past week, there was a rather insistent bird who wanted my apple cake....I hate feeding wild critters, but throwing a piece at it stopped it flying at me. (not sure what bird it was... The grey jays were far more polite)

[telecom_goddess]

Now I've heard everything....having to deal with angry wild turkeys in the road. I'm afraid I would show them who's boss and pick the one going after me as dinner

[Lachrymose]

I'm imagining a turkey gang with leather jackets.

I've never seen a flock(?) of wild turkeys like that before, but it always amuses me to see stray dogs of different breeds roaming neighborhoods together.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

All the wild turkeys around by me live in the country.

Then again, so did all the wild deer and they're overrunning the city, so the turkeys can't be too far behind.

[BookstoreEscapee]

There was a pair of turkeys on my college campus - Tom and Jenny. Jenny was hit by a car the year before I started there, but Tom could usually be found either down by the lake or up in "his" tree in front of the library. You did not want to mess with him. (He died my senior year; beaten with sticks and a police baton(?!) by a bunch of middle school kids from town .)

[Antisocial_Worker]

A bear running around downtown.

That is all.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Now I've heard everything....having to deal with angry wild turkeys in the road. I'm afraid I would show them who's boss and pick the one going after me as dinner

Anyone here want to place some bets on the outcome of that?



I think they already know who's boss.

[blas]

What if the mail carrier slammed on the brakes?

Years ago, when I was dating a guy who lived out in the sticks, I once interrupted two bucks in the middle of their rut fighting, horns locked and all by driving down the road they were in the middle of fighting on. They dispersed, and I proceeded with much caution, at the rate of a constipated snail.

Then out of nowhere, moments later, one of the bucks returned and showed his anger at my interference by ramming the driver's side entire front panel. He had to have woken up with quite a headache the next morning. And I needed a new headlight and casing and my dad had to really go at it with the toilet plunger to get that dent out.

I've hated deer ever since I was able to drive.

[Becks]

I've hated deer ever since I was able to drive.

I've hated deer ever since I was old enough to have to keep an eye out for them while Mommy was driving.

[Cat]

I see deer every now and then driving...when I see one, I know there are probably more near by....they do make me nervous when I'm driving. I'd rather see 'em in the woods.
Still haven't seen a moose....every time I head to NH I hope to see one....soon...

[KiaKat]

No, Cat, you don't.

Because generally if you see one, it means you're about to hit one.

The White Mountains are too forested to really see any wildlife, and there aren't many hiking trails that are unpopulated enough and open enough for a moose to just hang out.

If you live in NH, then you'll see one in your yard every so often. We did when I was a kid.

But if you're just visiting, and you see a moose, it's because it's on the highway.

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We used to have to shoo turkeys off the road when driving to school in the autumn. Frost on the leaf-covered ground, all of us bleary-eyed and freezing, and having to stop the car to chase damned turkeys off the road because they were too stupid to move when the car was bearing down on them.

Urg. I hated that.