Closing Bell: Prospect Park's Wild Turkey
Okay, all you amateur ornithologists out there: is this a real wild turkey, resting on a branch near the Prospect Park lake? Might be a good place to look for dinner if the stores run low (although the photo’s from spring). Have a good Thanksgiving. Photo by kmf221.
Okay, all you amateur ornithologists out there: is this a real wild turkey, resting on a branch near the Prospect Park lake? Might be a good place to look for dinner if the stores run low (although the photo’s from spring). Have a good Thanksgiving.
Photo by kmf221.
there are wild turkeys in brooklyn. i have seen them in greenwood cemetery. this of course is not a turkey. it looks more like a gull. although it is funny to think of a turkey pretending to be a gull the day before thanksgiving.
Saw a turkey in Battery Park on Monday.
What you got there is a juvenile Wild Turducken, before it matures and grows its outer Turkey layer.
Wild turkeys like the ecotone where woods meet grassland. The edge of the Long Meadow in Prospect Park might almost qualify (if the parkies let the grass grow) but wild turkeys also like areas sparsely populated by humans. It would be one clumsy turkey that found itself out on a tree branch in a lake.
This bird is so obviously not a turkey, I cannot help feeling like Lisa just made a holiday sight-gag at the expense of the seven (so far) of us who responded.
You’re kidding, right?
Driving up to the farm in Vermont in a couple of hours. Plenty of wild turkeys up there (and a nice fat farm-raised turkey for dinner tomorrow).
Happy holidays everyone.
Geez, Lisa…are you joking?
Nice photo, though.
duck
you townies need to take some day hikes
That doesn’t look anything like a turkey.