Hi Anne,
Don’t get your hopes up about turkey numbers dropping. We still have 30-60 that
come through our neighborhood in Eugene’s south hills everyday. I’m just
starting to work with the numbers from the Eugene CBC and I don’t have all of
the numbers yet, but what I do have is already showing a record high for Wild
Turkey (424 so far).
Dan Gleason
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On Jan 4, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Anne & Dan Heyerly <tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Obolinks,
In past Christmas counts in our area (3-A), which is the Ferry Street Bridge
area bounded on four sides by freeways, we have had as many as in the
mid-20s, and all had been in the neighborhood south of Harlow Rd. and east of
Coburg Rd. Yesterday we saw zero (0). We saw whitewash on Walnut Ln, and a
resident from that street said that six toms usually roost there. We swung by
after dark and searched that tree and others nearby and did not see them.
That same resident said that recently there had been as many as 12 total, but
that in recent weeks the flock is down to six. Maybe there are urban coyotes
that can climb trees . . . .
Dan Heyerly, Eugene
