Your post touched me. Thank you for sharing. Lesley Brown Highlands Ranch Douglas County
On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 6:13:09 PM UTC-7 modise wrote: > I bicycle past that cemetery regularly, and I see those turkeys about half > the time. It's such a treat to see them in the urban corridor! > > Bryan Arnold > Jefferson County > > On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 6:06:57 PM UTC-7 Tom Wilberding wrote: > >> Hello birders, >> No rarities to report, just a rather unusual Wild Turkey sighting. >> >> Barb and I took advantage of the warm, sunny weather today and rode our >> bikes from the Bluff Lake Nature Center northwest along Sand Creek on the >> Sand Creek bike path to the confluence of Sand Creek and the South. Platte >> River. An industrial corridor. Barb: “When’s it going to get pretty?” >> >> The most birds we saw was at the Denver sewage plant, the effluence at >> the confluence, the sudsy, sulfurous cascades below the plant. Here there >> were hundreds of American Wigeon and Northern Shovelers frantically >> gobbling up whatever was flowing from Denver’s Cloaca Maxima. >> >> We biked south on the South Platte River bike path to the spooky >> necropolis of Riverside Cemetery, home of Augusta Tabor since 1895 and >> Governor John Evans since 1897. We stopped for a break before heading back. >> Barb heard some rustling in the leaves below us on the bank. “Turkeys!” >> >> There were four adults crouching on the bank next to a King Sooper >> grocery cart and broken concrete. A passing local bicyclists said he >> photographed them here in the spring when they were poults and later >> watched them become jakes and jennies, now Toms and hens. Location here: >> https://goo.gl/maps/4hxSZ1zcVVuDJQ3r8 >> >> It was a strange Thanksgiving tableau, far from Currier & Ives. These >> turkeys were at home with the sounds, sights, and smells of the Denver >> sewage plant, the Cherokee coal plant, rumbling coal trains, roaring semis, >> a homeless encampment, an oil refinery, and a concrete crushing mill. >> >> Nature persists, even in difficult conditions, and so may we all this >> Thanksgiving and in the coming months 'til spring, when the pandemic may >> finally end. >> >> Best, >> Tom Wilberding >> Littleton, CO >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/fca590fd-4de9-40f3-8388-81d34f2391a1n%40googlegroups.com.
