[wisb] Re: Wild Turkey in Near West Side Madison Yard
- From: Ann Hamon <annhamon@xxxxxxx>
- To: "bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx" <bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:32:09 -0600
We have a flock of them on the east side of Madison, Elvehjem neighborhood,
Started with17 this summer now down to 3 or 4 that come by several times a week.
Ann Hamon
Madison
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On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:54 AM, "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kathi Rock asked: "How common are wild turkeys in urban areas?"
>
> There are Wild Turkeys in urban Milwaukee. Here's a photo I took of one
> almost exactly a year ago:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/14463444@N07/6781052430/
>
> And there was an article about Milwaukee urban turkeys in the
> Journal-Sentinel at Thanksgiving:
>
> http://bit.ly/UZSlBE
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> From: Kathi Johnson Rock <kathijr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:33 AM
> Subject: [wisb] Wild Turkey in Near West Side Madison Yard
>
> We had a female wild turkey spend about four hours in our near west side
> Madison yard today. I put leftover pet food out in the morning for crows and
> other critters and the turkey really seemed to enjoy it and was fighting with
> the crows over the food. Then it spent several more hours eating food on the
> ground underneath our standing bird feeder and foraging for food in other
> parts of our yard.
>
> How common are wild turkeys in urban areas?
>
> Kathi Johnson Rock
> Kathi and Michael Rock
> Madison, Wisconsin
> Zone 4/5
> e-mail: kathijr@xxxxxxxxx
> website: http://mywebspace.wisc.edu/mjrock/web
>
> "Hummingbirds.....where is the person, I ask, who, on observing this
> glittering
> fragment of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and turn his mind with
> reverence..."; (J. J. Audubon)
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