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Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, NewJersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. There is a flock of Wild Turkeys that strut around like they own the place and they might very well be right. Keep an eye out for gobblers and enjoy their strutting show!
This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, NewJersey, by Corey. And it isn’t.
We were four intrepid birders heading out of New York City to the wilds of NewJersey for birds, birds and more birds. ” Sandy Hook, our destination, is park of Gateway National Recreation Area like many of my favorite New York City birding locations. .” We saw far too many Turkey Vultures.
The pine barrens of NewJersey look rather plain and boring if you only see them while driving past on the Garden State Parkway or NewJersey Turnpike. By the time urban and suburban sprawl started to reach NewJersey’s pine barrens they were largely protected and today over 1.1
bicolor ), like the Red-bellied Woodpecker and Turkey Vulture , has expanded its range dramatically to penetrate northern reaches. A half-century ago, this species might have been restricted to Iowa or NewJersey, but now it can be found throughout New England and even south-eastern Canada. The Tufted Titmouse ( B.
There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in NewJersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by. It’s an incredible thing to watch.
We might not get the variety of a NewJersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America. Check the nearest fruiting fig and you would be hard pressed not to find a few Red-eyed Vireos , Summer Tanagers , Baltimore Orioles , Swainson’s Thrushes , and a Scarlet Tanager or two.
To get there we would need to get out of New York, through NewJersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to North Carolina on 1 April.
Most encounters people have with turkeys either involve a dead, roasted bird on a dinner table or sliced turkey between two pieces of bread. To female turkeys, however, a strutting male Meleagris gallapavo is nearly irresistible. Unlike other species that strut their stuff turkeys seem not to have set leks where they display.
What is up with all the frickin’ Wild Turkeys out there? This is the time of year when I tend to see turkeys dead on the side of the road. News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. In Boston, a turkey was the cause of a 2 car accident during the morning commute.
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