Beware of Turkey Crossing

Turkey! Oh turrrrnnkeeeeeey….
By Peggy Kiefer-Steed

Beware of Turkey Crossing! Grove’s downtown turkey is back to causing a lot of commotion. He is accused of blocking traffic downtown and attacking cars on Leisure.

Witnesses say he gets in the middle of the road and won’t move.
 Elusive wild downtown turkey.
Photo by Peggy Steed

Local authorities are worried he will either cause an accident or be killed. He follows them around sometimes and is attracted to the police and fire horns but the elusive turkey only lets them come about 6 feet from him and off he goes into the shelter of the park.

He causes people to be late for work and students to be late for school.

Rumors are he tried to attack someone at McDonald's, but I can’t confirm that. I think he just wanted some French fries.

What’s wrong with having a downtown mascot? A neighborhood on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco has approximately 200 parrots living in a park they have moved to from South America. They have their own fan club and are written about in many travel guides.

Maybe we need to add the turkey to one of the many exciting things to do and see at Grand Lake.
We have Christmas the albino doe wandering with her herd of cattle, and many neighborhood families of fox and groundhogs.

Thanks to our cell phones with decent cameras and the many photographers that call Grand Lake home, we see pet wild animals all over social media.

One of the coolest this year was the birth of an eagle photographed by several and posted on social media.

And now the downtown turkey is back to his shenanigans. I wish he would just hang out and be a good mascot, but I don’t think he is going to start behaving anytime soon, so, please be careful when traveling through town, especially if you are near McDonald’s where he seems to hang out most.

Peggy

Peggy Kiefer-Steed
peggykief@gmail.com

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