Driving down route 9 in Brookline across from Fisher HIll Estates around 8 a.m. today when a 4-foot tall girl turkey
(picture not the actual turkey but it looked like this) stepped elegantly in front of my car. She was either fighting my front fender or mating with it. It was hard to tell which, but my guess is fighting it as she was trying to cross the street and my Fit was a big grey metal turkey in her way. She was warbling and gobbling away, I think telling her male friend, who was waiting cautiously at the side of the road, to follow her. Either that, or she was telling me I was a white honky jive turkey that was in her way and she was going to kick my butt. I kept my windows rolled up.
I beeped at her a few times and that didn't help. It may have even made things worse as she may have interpreted the horn as an aggro gobble.
She kept dipping under my fender and hesitating and I was afraid I was going to run her over but eventually I was able to pull around the two turkeys to the left. Dang! Where is my rifle when I need it?? I could have bagged TWO thanksgiving turkeys at once! These birds were four feet tall! I really need to publish the collected stories of local encounters with wild turkeys. And maybe other wild animals too. With all the abnormally warm weather, I think animal behavior is only going to (hopefully) get more crazy.
