More Neighborhood Critters

Driving the back way to the local post office, we came upon a flock of wild turkeys walking across the road. Two big ones and three only slightly smaller ones, all in full feather and looking like they're having no problems finding food during the winter.

As a gentle reminder to the reader (or should that be "as a reminder to my gentle readers"?) please note that this is in a densely populated residential area about two miles from Boston, and a couple blocks away from a major State highway.

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised at the amount and variety of the wildlife population. Twenty-some years ago, we'd often flush a flock of pheasants in the back yard as we went out to get in our car in the morning. They, alas, seem to have disappeared along with a big chunk of open land along the state road, once a private estate but now gone to Condos. There are rumors they're still around, hiding in the tall grass around the old reservoir, but few will admit to seeing them.