At first there was just one….at some point there were obviously two….so now there are three. Three turkeys living in the center of the Blackburn Circle.
It used to make me so sad to see the female turkey walking around day after day in the brown desolate grass in the center of the busy rotary. I assumed she was injured….and for a while she went unseen during my commutes back and forth to Beverly.
Then, low and behold, I saw her again….and this time she was followed closely by a couple of poults. Cute little baby turkeys.
So now, it would seem, all three of them live at Blackburn Circle. Do they stay there all day and night? What an odd place to decide to live.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I am a Vermonter.We have had “flocks” of turkeys over the last few years(up to twelve pullets each year.However this year only three eggs hatched and survived the heavy spring rains.The circle is a very strange place indeed the and hopefully, they will soon find a safer, wooded area to move to!
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She’s actually a pretty smart hen. The circle is relatively safe from predators and human intervention as long as they stay in the circle, but provided all the right foraging foods! This hen raised a clutch a year or so ago in the same area, and would take her poults into the fenced in ditch off of the road to the Crossing. Again, a safer, protected area for her babies to forage and learn the ropes. She’s got this raising poults thing down pat.
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YES this was my exact thought when I saw them! Perfect, protected green land for her to raise her babies. They even have bushes to nest in. Car noise is not ideal, of course, so I hope they find a quieter area soon. 😍😍😍
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I wonder where they sleep since there’s no trees in the circle?
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Excellent Post Nicole! And all of the above are correct! We had domesticated turkeys for well over 30 years chickens ducks, geese, and peacocks so habits are a wee bit different but some like roosting off the ground if not setting on egg’s see the below for more:
http://tracker.cci.fsu.edu/turkey/about/how/
Peacocks go real high in tree’s or ours did! I remember at Beeman school would walk out into woods and sometimes pheasants you got too close hidden would fly up so close as they wait until last minute hit you with feathers sometimes! Don’t tell the teaches we sneak out into woods Ha Ha! 🙂 Dave Rascals yep!
Dave:-) & Kim 🙂
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