City Council President Michelle Wu looked out her window this morning and wondered:
Good or bad omen to find a turkey on your car?
A Globe columnist answered it's a bad sign, but that was in Brookline, where the birds have acquired a taste for human flesh.
Kelly O. spotted this Brookline turkey checking itself out in a mirror this morning.
Damaskin took this photo of an overflowing Frog Pond from the safety of higher ground this morning.
Even fearless turkeys were forced to flee. Mike spotted this gobbler on the Park Street side of the Common around 7 a.m.: Read more.
Damaskin spotted a turkey doing its morning ablutions in the Frog Pond.
Chris Dempsey spotted this unlikely trio on the Common today - turkey, seagull and pigeon: Together they fight crime.
The "confused pheasant" one Beacon Hill resident reported this morning has made it up to the roofline of the storied neighborhood, as J shows us.
A citizen who might want to buy a bird-identification book filed a complaint about a "confused pheasant" on Mt. Vernon Street behind the State House this morning.
Out for a walk before 6 this morning, Beth Wolfe found some company on Washington Street downtown - a turkey pondering whether to cross the road.
This gang of two-bit Toms gave Matt E. the eye on Sheridan Street in Jamaica Plain this morning.
— cinnamngrl (@cinnamngrl) April 15, 2017
cinnamngrl watched these turkeys casually evade security at the outer perimeter of the Red Line yard in South Boston today.
Maybe it's because they know they're safe on this Easter weekend, but whatever the reason, reports are piling up here at Turkey Central of the birds strutting across the city, such as this fine specimen Colleen Glenney spotted in Brighton this morning. Read more.
Shortly before 5 p.m., as Katrina Demulling shows us, service halted on the C inbound due to a pair of turkeys that refused to yield the tracks to a trolley.
"This is not how I remember 'Make Way for Ducklings'," Gedalia Pasternak thought while watching a bus on Mass. Ave in Harvard Square making way for passing poultry this morning.
These turkeys trying to give this cat its 10th life pic.twitter.com/VBM7t4MZYr
— J... (@TheReal_JDavis) March 2, 2017
The Real JDavis videoed these turkeys slowly circling a dead cat on a Randolph street this morning. Boston Magazine talks to a turkey expert to get answers on why.
Rob C spotted these turkeys patiently waiting for the bus in the South End this morning.
EvolvingCritic captured (on an SD card, anyway) a pair of turkeys in Dudley Square today.
We spotted about a half dozen turkeys, including these two, roaming Grouse Street at Washington this afternoon.
Earlier:
Might be time to rename Partridge Street.
John Overholt managed to flee in advance of the avian onslaught on Mass. Ave. this morning.
Matt Fede spotted these Thanksgiving leftovers this morning on the roof of Arborway Motors on South Street, near the Arborway in Jamaica Plain.
Derek Kouyoumjian spotted some relieved turkeys at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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