I’ve read so much about how badly Mill Pond smelled before they filled it in; if i ever get my hands on a time machine, i know where i’m going first.
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I’ve read so much about how badly Mill Pond smelled before they filled it in; if i ever get my hands on a time machine, i know where i’m going first.
South Bay? There’s no bay here! Just a shopping center!
Astoria the Wild Turkey, The Battery's Queen, on a recent evening. 🦃 ❤️ 👑
Two wild turkey hens trudging through a snowy yard. The shadows are long, it is a wintry afternoon. Some half buried bushes are poking out of the snow in the foreground and some tree trunks and a plowed road can be seen behind them.
🪶 Coupla lassies stopping by
Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her iridescence in the warm evening light in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🌅
A turkey sits perched on a wood fence in the snow with its back to the viewer and its head turned left
I think this Turkey is done with winter
#photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-062, #wildturkey, #turkey, #birds, #winter, #snow
Close-up of a wild turkey tom’s face. He is rather “hairy”, has lots of tiny hairs/feathers on the top of his head and on his pulled-in snood (a hairy little rhino horn at the moment). He has a wart? (some kind of red pimple) over his eye. Snowy driveway and part of a snow shovel visible behind him. It is well below freezing.
🪶 Hirsute Harry over here looks like he’s been through hell. He’s seen things.
Ah, sorry! Was a long time ago…
Dunno, Ziba, why not follow the trail of corrosive landmines these two have left for you and find out?
Nice yard!
BIRD WITH THE PUMPKIN
To figure out what works best to fool surveillance planes. This was a year before D-Day, so they had to simulate europe on a tabletop since field testing wasn’t an option.
And also to come up with stuff like this:
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Hingham used to call Weymouth people “the sweaties” because they were the ones mowing their lawns
Nah, Hingham is way more Marblehead. Old money. Weymouth was shoe factories and people who mowed Hingham’s lawns. But Weymouth hasn’t been “country” since they put the railroads through here in the 1890s.
Astoria the Wild Turkey works the balance beam at the Coast Guard building. 🦃 ❤️ 🥇
A wild male turkey displays after winning the battle with another male. Its is chest puffed out and feathers are in full display.
Male wild turkey displaying his #PowerPose for #BirdOfTheDay after winning the privilege to mate. ☮️💙😜 #Birds #Nature #Photography @alan678.bsky.social
The blizzard was still going on late Monday morning. Astoria the Wild Turkey left The Battery to explore. She initially sheltered by a vehicle near the Staten Island Ferry terminal and ate some snow. 🦃 🧡 ❄️
A photo of a wild turkey and a black squirrel on snow covered ground with sunflower seeds that dropped from the feeders above, and a suet feeder resting in the snow that was knocked off the feeder line by the squirrel.
Open photo - SQUIRREL!! (And a turkey!) #ALT
Astoria the Wild Turkey walks her trusted companion Stella from the ferry terminal back toward The Battery after Monday's blizzard. 🦃 🧡
Wild Turkey (BirdNET-Go representative image)
BirdNET: I heard a bird at 2026-02-26 19:12:18 PST!
I'm 81% sure it was a Wild Turkey.
Daytime camera trap photo of a wild turkey about to cross a remnant beaver dam with some melting snow scattered throughout the scene.
OTD in '23: one of the larger species of 'waterfowl' that visits the beaver pond!
🪶🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo
Teddy Ballgame by all accounts was a mean sonofabitch; this still seems like some sort of revenge by his son to me. Pretty sure he wanted to be cremated.
A wild turkey tom standing amidst some strewn peanuts in a snowy/icy driveway. He is very blue and red in the face, and was very puffed up a minute ago, that means he’s trying to assert his spot at the top of the pecking order. Also, his feathers are very iridescent and coppery, they have a nice metallic sheen to them.
🪶 There might be 400 feet of snow on the ground, but this lad knows it’s time to start asserting dominance again. Spring is coming.
Peanuts (unsalted; shelled or unshelled, they don’t care) or sunflower seeds/bird seed mix. They’ll also eat most nuts, dried fruit, bread and multigrain cheerios if that’s all i have. Omnivores.
Had an oil change once at a service station; they forgot to put oil cap back on. Took me half a mile before i smelled oil coming out of every vent. Drove right back, mechanic had the cap in his pocket. At least they were mortified and wiped the engine down as best they could. Still stank for months.
Did you at least yell at the plumber?
Free idea: goose foot booties for turkeys; i’m sure there’s a huge untapped market there!
🪶…aaand it’s snowing again.
1. Scumbag Steve
2. Good Guy Greg
3. Philosoraptor
4. Smudge The Cat
A bare deciduous tree with four wild turkeys roosting in it. They’ve tucked in their heads so they appear like eerie black lumps. It’s the tail end of an all-day blizzard, but it’s still coming down hard and the wind is whipping. 19”/48cm snow so far.
🪶 If you’ve ever wondered what wild turkeys do during a blizzard, here you go. They stay in their trees, tuck in their heads and hang on for dear life.
