Saw a Wild Turkey on the Southern State Parkway !!

[Pangaroo]

I was driving back from Deer Park going West on the Southern State Parkway and I saw a lone Wild Turkey feeding in the grass. Cemetery was adjacent to the Parkway.It was near all the Cemeteries about 2 miles East of Route 109 in Farmingdale. Where there's one, there are others and good they're starting to move into the Cemeteries out there in the Farmingdale East area. I bet they're in St. Charles out in Farmingdale . The next 20 years they'll be in the Woods along the Parkways, like the Meadowbrook Parkway woods where the birds on the North Shore can work down to almost Jones Beach. Amazing how fast the LI Turkey population has grown, it started in the early 1990's when they released 30-40 Wild Turkey out in East Hampton . I remember some upstate Wildlife Biologist said Turkey wouldn't do well on Long Island. So wrong! Long Island is perfect for Wild Turkey , mild winters, mild springs that don't kill the Chicks, many areas where they can't be hunted and many less predators. Wouldn't surprise me if Long Island becomes the number 1 area for Wild Turkey in the State.

 

[Chinacat]

Here out east we see them quite regularly
Not everyday like deer but often enough tyat its a common site

 

[jpd]

 

[Chevy1]

I was driving back from Deer Park going West on the Southern State Parkway and I saw a lone Wild Turkey feeding in the grass. Cemetery was adjacent to the Parkway.It was near all the Cemeteries about 2 miles East of Route 109 in Farmingdale. Where there's one, there are others and good they're starting to move into the Cemeteries out there in the Farmingdale East area. I bet they're in St. Charles out in Farmingdale . The next 20 years they'll be in the Woods along the Parkways, like the Meadowbrook Parkway woods where the birds on the North Shore can work down to almost Jones Beach. Amazing how fast the LI Turkey population has grown, it started in the early 1990's when they released 30-40 Wild Turkey out in East Hampton . I remember some upstate Wildlife Biologist said Turkey wouldn't do well on Long Island. So wrong! Long Island is perfect for Wild Turkey , mild winters, mild springs that don't kill the Chicks, many areas where they can't be hunted and many less predators. Wouldn't surprise me if Long Island becomes the number 1 area for Wild Turkey in the State.

They are in Smithtown, I see them on 347 and all around the area.