Ok. For the next two weeks twicks will be eating turkey soup, turkey tetrazinni, turkey salad, turkey croquets and turkey ala king.
Not precisely true. Watch public panic and debate fly when there are reports of a coyote within city boundaries. When NYC had one in the Riverside area, they went after it tooth and nail to get it out of the area, and protect the children. (No matter that the coyote had never attacked anyone, nor any pets.)
Well … a hungry coyote will eat a cat or small enough dog in heartbeat if it can get one.
On my way to work Friday night, there were two huge, beautiful does just chillin’ in the middle of the road in Harrisburg, about two blocks off of the very busy Cameron Street.
There’s a family of…I dunno what they are. They live in the bushes out front. My first thought was groundhogs, but they seem a lot larger than normal. They don’t rob any banks that I know of. Whenever I have kitchen waste (fruit peels, stale bread, bacon grease, etc.), I toss it out there and they make it disappear.
The birdies on my door are gone, though. A wind gust took care of wrecking their nest, and the eggs never did get to hatch.
Friday I was at my new house doing some pre-moving work and I looked out my bedroom window in time to see a small flock of Canada geese (including some young ones) walking in a line through my yard, no doubt on their way to the pond behind my property.
Wild Turkeys have really made a remarkable comeback throughout the eastern US. A few years ago we got the reports of some that were being seen on a golf course in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, NY, near the neighborhood I grew up in. These may have been the first free-living Wild Turkeys within the NYC limits in hundreds of years.
I came across a herd of peacocks in Pasadena. On Del Mar Blvd about 1/2 a mile from CalTech. It was the most bizarre thing. I have some cell snaps but my camera is pretty crappy and they were highly avoidant.