Turkey sighting in Dumont new Jersey

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Abandoned NorthJersey

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@RailfanNetwork 3 ай бұрын

In Chicago we had a lot of Jive Time Turkey's.

@AbandonedNorthJersey 3 ай бұрын

I can picture them strutting past the loop with a swagger

@WitchidWitchid 3 ай бұрын

I live not far away from where you recorded this. Same latitude but I am due east in NY on the other side of the big wide river. Anyway, one morning I was leaving my house and on a short slope in front of my neighbors house there was a large wild turkey, just standing there. I got pictures of it too. Maybe I'll post them. Twas the first time I had ever seen a real, live wild turkey. And only a few feet from my house.

@AbandonedNorthJersey 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like near Yonkers and from the tree in my neighbors yard I can see a bridge with binoculars a few miles to the south but I have a torn rotator cuff and can't climb anymore. I have seen pheasant turkey peacock even eagles owls and hawks but only in the last 15 to 20 years due to deforestation upstate 😢

@WitchidWitchid 3 ай бұрын

@@AbandonedNorthJersey Yes, in fact I am in Yonkers. Round here I see plenty of hawks as they often hunt for squirrel (which we seem to have a lot of). Several times I've seen owls on my property. For a while there was one that would perch on the branch of a tree what was only about 1-2 feet away from my front window so I got a very close up view. Turkey vultures occasionally show up. But an actual wild turkey I only saw that once. The deforestation must be having an effect. There are more deer showing up down here than ever before (even on down and into the Bronx), and on a couple of occasions bears have been spotted lumbering through wooded areas or in backyards looking for food. 10 or so years ago that was unheard of this far downstate. Sorry to hear about the injury. Are you doing any treatments for that or planning on getting surgery? I used to be somewhat of an ""urban explorer" back in the 1970's before it was popular. Also did some cave & mine exploring until claustrophobia got the better of me. These days I have bad knees so it's hard to explore places, particularly if I have to climb, run, or jump.

@AbandonedNorthJersey 3 ай бұрын

@@WitchidWitchid I am surprised that it's even in the Bronx. Upstate NY The Tappan Zee Bridge area has seen massive developments and no historical buildings are spared as well. It all boils down to the protection of drinking water and it is not even on the bucket list. While unseen wildlife is emerging I have also noticed that other once seen wildlife has disappeared like toads turtles and chipmunks and snakes plus around by me when I turn over a slab or stray board and stones I no longer see millipede centipede or pill bugs earwigs sow bugs and I blame it on landscape companies over using chemicals

@asankaw1 3 ай бұрын

That's sad indeed to know that poor wild things die due to lack of sensitivity of humans..and hope she will be safe from predators as well..❤❤❤❤

@AbandonedNorthJersey 3 ай бұрын

That bird can strut her stuff and no cat will be foolish enough to start a fight with her but the most dangerous animal alive is a constant threat and that animal is 😮hooman people 😮😮😮😮😮

@asankaw1 3 ай бұрын

@@AbandonedNorthJersey agreed

@UrbanKiwiana 3 ай бұрын

Lol I for some reason completely read the title as your turky shooting in Dumont new jersey😂. It's rare to see them not in a flock to,.they usually hang in little flocks at least here in New Zealand they do. I forget theres something like with eating the wild ones if the month has a E in it they are tough, stringy,gristley and horrible to eat, but it's been so long since I shot wild turkeys and ate one that I can't remember. Something about their stomachs been full of grass seed or maybe its crickets 😂 I've forgotten..bloody hell I hit me 40s and half of the info in me brains been reset lol. Have an amazing week mate

@AbandonedNorthJersey 2 ай бұрын

She came back again but this time with her mate . I also get peacocks on occasion

@UrbanKiwiana 2 ай бұрын

@AbandonedNorthJersey +love it mate that's so cool,. We've a wild flock of turkeys that hang around the Orchards near home,. And wild peacocks in the pines, the amount of times one had flown off as I get close and made me jump lol. Have an amazing weekend

@willf5768 3 ай бұрын

We have them up here in east bun fk vt. I feed them in the winter months. And give them snacks during the summer. I at one time had 36 of them 5 Tom's and 25 hens plus 6 Jake's. And I've been feeding them for years and they seem to know who I am and are not afraid of me because I'm the guy with the goodies I guess. They really like black oil sunflower seeds. I mix them with whole kernel corn. They are fun to watch (cheap entertainment) they jump around chase each other. I did have to one day distract a couple of Tom's that were trying to do their thing with a hen and kinda fighting a bit. once a big Tom (big boy)was trying to get the job done and another Tom who I called gimpy. I saved gimpy from a fox that's another story. But gimpy wanted to get on on the action that day and was pissing off big boy who was getting it on with the hen or trying to. Finally big boy had enough of gimpy buddin in and grabbed gimpy by the throat and walked him off. My thinking was to do him in. So I had to save gimpy again I did so by walking out the garage back door with some food in my home made grain scoop . I shook the scoop and big boy let go of gimpy and came waking over with gimpy behind him. And the hen to have a snack. They forgot all about what they were doing and started eating. Kinda funny. 😊 I actually have the whole think on my phone. I've got Bears deer , turkey, fisher cats , fox and coyotes. In my back 40 not to mention other critters. Good to hear from. You Richard hope all is well in Jersey.

@AbandonedNorthJersey 3 ай бұрын

Interesting story and that is a farm technically but maybe it is,,LOL but good thing you had quick thinking and everybody got along...geeet_alooong now kitties_get along. I have seen coyotes and fox and scare them away being very loud and charging at them and they usually run for the hills but one time I was waiting at a traffic light and saw a bigger than usual coyote 🐺 just inches from my car and I was staring at it as I never saw one and it had a very mischievous disposition and suddenly noticed that I was staring at it and it cocked it's head nearly upside down and I drove away as fast as I could, and this was at a bus stop I frequently use and at the same time I usually sit down at the bench while waiting for the bus and it looked like it had come all the way from the woods that extended to upstate New York wilderness so it might have been hungry. I am very good at imitating the call of the Morning 🕊️ Dove and had one come into my yard and fooled it. I learned how to do it from a Sioux indigenous tribe member who moved next door by cupping my hands and using my thumbs as the mouth piece. I raised a nest of wrens that where taken from their mother by a blue jay and raised them in a shoe box and fed them bread crumbs and milk and they grew up fast and taught them how to fly 🕊️. One of them visited a year later and landed on my head. I love animals and care for a group of Toms and let them live in my garage and one was so unique I took him in and named him Buddy and his mother still stops by and her name is Mommy and her sister I call Auntie and she basically calls my garage her home.