Becky reports she was chased to the Brookline Hills T stop this morning by a brigade of turkeys, led by Commander Drumstick here. The flash from her phone camera proved ineffective at getting them to stop trying to knock the stuffing out of her.
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Isn't there a plastic surgeon in Brookline that
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 10:27am
can get rid of that awful Turkey neck?
Once the turkey sees you as being lower in the pecking order
By anon
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 12:42pm
you're toast. That's why it's important to be aggressive with them from the start. The more people the turkey feels dominant to, the more other people will have to work to convince the turkey otherwise.
New slogan
By anon
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 10:42am
Make Turkeys Meat Again
I may have missed something
By Malcolm Tucker
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 10:52am
I know turkeys have been trying to take back Brookline for ages, but is there something that happened recently that led to the apparent increase in turkey appearances in Boston? Have they always been here? Were they displaced somehow?
It is a seasonal thing.
By DPM
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 11:40am
It is a seasonal thing. Hunting season opens in a few weeks. Generally alongside hunting season they tend to be less active.
They've been regrouping and
By Section77
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 1:02pm
They've been regrouping and waiting for the moment to strike.
Sure is
By anon²
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 1:03pm
This is when big turkeys try making smaller turkeys.
As to seeing them more often now, they were reintroduced to New England, and figured out that human habitats are nicer to their livelihoods.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11...
people should kill the turkeys
By Scumquistador
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 11:29am
that attack them
You can't win.If you strike
By Turkey Liberati...
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 11:42am
You can't win.If you strike us down, we shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Even in death our tryptophan will defeat you from inside.
You taste good.
By DPM
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 11:51am
You taste good.
Should we be suspicious ...
By adamg
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 11:58am
That Wicked Local Brookline hasn't posted a police-beat item since March 20? What have you done with the reporter who used to regularly file reports of turkey mayhem?
They may have run 'afowl' of
By Turkey Liberati...
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 1:36pm
They may have run 'afowl' of the Brookline's colonialist regime's censors for breathlessly reporting our sorrowful plight and valiant struggle to liberate our ancestral lands.
Yes!
By Patricia Roberts
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 1:33pm
They should certainly kill the turkeys that molest them. I am mystified that turkeys are considered a protected species. Maybe it's okay for them to run around out in the country, but to bother humans in the cities, and to be protected while they do it? That's crazy.
Crunch all ya want
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 2:40pm
They'll make more!
Mass DFW doesn't say it's OK for them to bother people
By anon
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 4:44pm
From their website:
"Do not allow turkeys to become habituated to people
Wild turkeys which become conditioned to human foods, and habituated to people, are likely to cause damage or to attempt to dominate people. Once this behavior is established, it can be very difficult or impossible to change. Be sure to be bold around turkeys-especially when they first show up in an area-and encourage others in the neighborhood to do the same."
In other words
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 5:25pm
Don't feed them before or after midnight!
Brookline, I think I found you a sister city!
By anon
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 1:16pm
Teaneck, NJ:
http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/pity-poor-teaneck-pla...
They too, "just. can't. EVEN." with the TLF.
As someone who has never seen
By 2
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 2:02pm
As someone who has never seen a turkey outside of Thanksgiving dinner, I really want to see one alive and walking around. Every time I read a report about them, they're only in Brookline (other than that one time a turkey was wandering around South End a few weeks ago).
Turkeys are on my street almost every day
By KSquared
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 2:13pm
In my little neighborhood in Norwood, there is a flock of turkeys that show up most days on the street.
if i knew how to upload
By whatsboothinking?
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 2:21pm
if i knew how to upload pictures id show you some more running around beacon hill last week. my girl came racing in the house screaming about them. big ol fat birds living off trash. theyll be the new daytime racoons eventually
Sorry about that
By adamg
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 2:22pm
Easiest thing would be to e-mail one or two to me and I can post for you.
What! I work near the State
By 2
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 5:29pm
What! I work near the State House, but I'm never in Beacon Hill after hours or on the weekend. Where do these turkeys even live??
Oh, no, you don't
By erik g
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 2:38pm
By the time you can see one of these vicious hellbirds, it's already too late. Three of his turkey buddies have flanked you, and they're already planning to feast on your organs. VICIOUS HELLBIRDS.
We prefer to be addressed as
By Turkey Liberati...
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 3:44pm
We prefer to be addressed as liberators, patriots, and freedom fighters.
Guerrilla warfare, pincer movements through the underbrush, and surprise aerial assaults from the treetops are our specialties.
This is so funny to me. I
By 2
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 5:42pm
This is so funny to me. I want to see a turkey! Why can't I find any in JP?
They live up on Moss Hill.
By JP anon
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 7:46pm
They live up on Moss Hill. Several years ago I was prevented from leaving the parking lot of the Manning School by a line of 14 turkeys that were taking their sweet time to cross the parking lot and then fly over the fence on the other side.
There have been a few around recently
By Sally
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 10:22pm
But they always surprise me! I don't know anywhere they just hang out though. Most of my turkey encounters have been in Brookline, mostly on Carlton St near the Longwood T stop.
The Wild Turkeys of Brookline Hills strike again!
By mplo
Sat, 04/09/2016 - 4:25am
I've recently seen them in the vicinity of where my family lives. Boy, are they tough-looking!
I saw them all the time there
By Becky
Sun, 04/10/2016 - 9:50pm
I saw them all the time there when I biked to my old job!
Not just Brookline...
By FlyingToaster
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 5:07pm
Davis Square, Somerville
Central Square, Cambridge
Filippello Park, Watertown
Those are the places I frequently see turkeys. Basically anywhere that the coyotes aren't roaming*, you have either Canada Geese or wild turkeys.
* My neighborhood has coyotes and very speedy rabbits.
Spectacle Island
By Irma la Douce
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 7:06pm
At least 2 on Spectacle Island last fall, I have photos of the one I encountered, who was quite peaceful and made no threats, despite my accidentally getting quite close. Lesson learned: mutual respect and mutual effort to maintain peaceful coexistence are the solutions to this conflict.
Except that if the turkey decides that you are subordinate
By anon
Sat, 04/09/2016 - 8:00am
there will be no mutual respect, and they will be more likely to feel dominant towards others. That's why it's important to act dominant towards them.
consistent sightings
By Sharon
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 6:27pm
Central Sq, Cambridge
Harvard Sq, Cambridge
Inman Sq, Cambridge
Fields Corner, Dorchester
A turkey just walked down my
By chaosjake
Fri, 04/08/2016 - 5:22pm
A turkey just walked down my street in Readville. I see them pretty often in the outlying neighborhoods.
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