Hi everyone,

All of this talk about animals reminds me of a funny experience a few years ago. At a nearby Kroger (nationwide
chain of grocery stores), there's several -big- tom turkeys living in the grove behind it and in winter, when
the toms get hungry, they go to the main door at Kroger and beg for food. It's the funniest thing.

They can get nasty though. They probably weigh 30-40 pounds each.

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All of this talk about animals reminds me of a funny experience a few years ago. At a nearby Kroger (nationwide
chain of grocery stores), there's several -big- tom turkeys living in the grove behind it and in winter, when
the toms get hungry, they go to the main door at Kroger and beg for food. It's the funniest thing.

They can get nasty though. They probably weigh 30-40 pounds each.

I bet it is funny. I have never been around a lot of them, but that is one wild animal I wouldn't suspect of being a food begger. I wonder if someone
got in the habit of feeding them to start it off? :D

Mike


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Mike Powell wrote to DIGIMAUS <=-

I bet it is funny. I have never been around a lot of them, but that is one wild animal I wouldn't suspect of being a food begger. I wonder if someone got in the habit of feeding them to start it off? :D

Oh, I'm sure they did. I don't think turkeys are naturally aggressive begging humans for food.

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I bet it is funny. I have never been around a lot of them, but that is one wild animal I wouldn't suspect of being a food begger. I wonder if someone got in the habit of feeding them to start it off? :D

Oh, I'm sure they did. I don't think turkeys are naturally aggressive begging
humans for food.

I always thought that Canadian Geese were but then I encountered some in
Canada that didn't seem bothered at all that I was nearby eating lunch. I
was surprised that they paid me no mind & left me alone. I think it is
in places where they are used to people showing up and offering food that
they become (*very*) aggressive beggers.

I used to joke that the Canadian Geese in Canada were more polite than the
ones that migrate or settle here. :D

Mike

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Oh, I'm sure they did. I don't think turkeys are naturally aggressive begg

>> humans for food.

I always thought that Canadian Geese were but then I encountered some in

>Canada that didn't seem bothered at all that I was nearby eating lunch. I
>was surprised that they paid me no mind & left me alone. I think it is
>in places where they are used to people showing up and offering food that
>they become (*very*) aggressive beggers.

They are, if nothing else, pragmatic. Some have gone South for winter
and, being well fed in parks and such, have stayed there. We get quite
a few of them around here but we didn't 35 years ago. They would stop
here but then continue further North to Hudson Bay, but for quite a few
years now we have a good number that stay in this area and they are not
much being fed by people.

Some in the Provincial parks probably are but they have signs and such
asking people not to feed them because they are loud, aggressive
beggars.. plus they don't want them to think that if they winter here
there will still be people around to feed them.

But I've gotten used to seeing them here. They have Goosey Daycare
where, once the goslings are swimming around well, you'll see one
Mother Goose with 15 or 20 of them following her so you know that
they don't all belong to that one female. They say 2 to 8 eggs for
one nest but I'd say that 3 or 4 would be most common.

Pretty much every day now when I head outside I have a couple of
them honking at me, more commonly this time of year when they are
just starting to nest.. They do that often from several hundred
feet distant, likely a warning to all of them in the area that
there is someone outside not too far away.

I used to joke that the Canadian Geese in Canada were more polite

>than the ones that migrate or settle here. :D

Well, they are Canadian, eh? B)

At the moment, as I type this, the Whippoorwills are making a heck
of a racket outside. They are quite loud and generally do their
calling starting at about midnight.

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At the moment, as I type this, the Whippoorwills are making a heck
of a racket outside. They are quite loud and generally do their
calling starting at about midnight.

I don't think we have any of those in this area.

That said, I used to say there were no Catbirds or Oriels in this area but,
in the past 1.5 weeks, I have seen both at my home.

Mike

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