I know it's totally out of the area, but wild turkeys in very urban 
areas are apparently not unusual. A few years back we were in NY and 
we saw several wild turkeys wandering around amidst a construction 
project in Battery Park in lower Manhattan, right near where the 
Staten Island Ferry docks. Nearby Staten Island apparently has a wild 
turkey problem - somehow they were introduced a few years back, 
speculation is they escaped from a psychiatric facility (insert joke 
here) and they are now over 100 of them who have become quite 
acclimated to humans and are terrorizing the neighborhoods (not to 
mention the possibility taking the ferry without paying). Now Staten 
Islanders are trying to figure out how to get rid of them.

Melanie



>In the last few months I've had to rethink everything I thought
>I knew about the shy, elusive, hard-to-see Wild Turkey.  Last 
>August we moved my younger son up to Worcester, MA (where
>he is now in graduate school).  Driving through his neighborhood,
>I was utterly astonished to see a hen turkey sitting next to a
>large street tree, on the little strip of grass between the street
>(with parked cars) and the sidewalk - calmly preening and then
>taking a bit of a nap.  A few weeks later my son called me on
>his cell phone to describe another turkey crossing the busy,
>six-lane city street that runs alongside the campus (it waited
>on the median strip until it could get all the way across).  More
>recently, my son reported that he came across a flock of about
>20 turkeys while taking a walk in the large park on the north side
>of town, which has some heavily wooded areas.
>
>It seems that these birds are much more adaptable (to an urban
>environment, even) than I ever suspected.  So, maybe they turn
>shy and elusive when the shotguns come out!
>
>   
>Elaine Hendricks
>Greenbelt, MD  (PG County)
>
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Melanie