I spotted four turkeys yesterday in Fort Collins, walking past the patio of my dermatologist’s office. (On Lemay, in between Riverside and Mulberry, right along the Poudre river.) I caught a pic with my phone as they strutted past. So funny to see them there! That’s a lot of brave turkeys wandering around this close to Thanksgiving! ;-)
Amy Roberts Ft. Collins [email protected] > On Nov 17, 2020, at 6:06 PM, Tom Wilberding <[email protected]> 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/6b295fa0-f557-4d6c-b928-a98a5942ad2bn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/C3D6F979-C457-4456-870E-DB15856FD1C8%40gmail.com.
