Turkeys

Cambridge: A city cowering in fear

By adamg - 3/31/23 - 10:07 am

Brit tabloid the Daily Mail breathlessly reports about rogue turkeys in Cambridge, yes, Cambridge, not Brookline: Read more.

One of these days, men in Dorchester will learn that if you go after a turkey, it will return the favor. And it has velociraptor-like spurs and a beak and you don't. But until then, we'll keep getting videos like the one above, and sagas like the guy forced onto the hood of a car by the turkeys he tried to menace.

Those nearing release are allowed to wander the grounds

By adamg - 12/6/22 - 11:46 am

Jill Cetel was passing by the Boston Pre-Release Center on the Mattapan/Roslindale line and wonders what the turkey did.

It takes a lot to ruffle Remy the Cat's feathers, marauding turkey flock learns

By adamg - 11/30/22 - 12:20 pm

Turkeys trying to intimidate Harvard's most famous cat

Joshua Lupkin shows us the scene this morning outside Harvard's Barker Center, where some of Harvard Square's tougher toms tried intimidating Remy the Cat, but Remy stood, or sat, his ground. Read more.

One of our turkeys just gave up and got itself ready for Thursday

By adamg - 11/22/22 - 11:59 am

Wrapped turkey on a downtown Boston street

Jon Hillman spotted this wrapped turkey at Spring Lane and Devonshire Street downtown this morning.

The turkey matador of Dorchester finds himself surrounded

By adamg - 10/15/22 - 4:54 pm

Welcome to Dot files a dispatch this afternoon from Ocean Street in Dorchester, already known for the meanest turkeys in all of Boston: Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Out-of-control turkeys mounting a counter-attack on one Dorchester street

By adamg - 10/13/22 - 10:39 am

A panicked citizen manages to file a 311 report from Ocean Street in Dorchester before the turkeys realize what she's doing: Read more.

Peck, peck, peckin' on heaven's door

By adamg - 9/18/22 - 12:55 pm

Turkey on steps of church rectory in Cambridge

Roving UHub photographer Melissa Hirshson spotted this bird seeking a chance to speak about her Lord and Savior, or maybe to ask to see an electric bill or even to seek a donation for GBH, at the main entrance to the rectory of Christ Church in Harvard Square this morning (bonus: Note the boot scraper on the step).

Wild turkey? Not when they're this wet

By adamg - 9/6/22 - 3:11 pm

See them larger.

Welcome to Dot spotted these drenched, bedraggled turkeys on the Harborwalk near the JFK Library in Dorchester on this, our second straight day of rain.

Turkey nearly knocks the stuffing out of Dedham woman

By adamg - 6/1/22 - 3:21 pm

WBZ reports, doesn't say if the attack was near the line with Hyde Park, where residents have learned to deal with bloodthirsty terror turkeys, one of which went after a WBZ reporter.

Maybe there are more turkeys on Beacon Hill than we think, they've just managed to blend in

By adamg - 4/22/22 - 9:21 am

Dr. Jessica Dello Russo reports that, at first, she thought this bird on Ridgeway Lane on Beacon Hill might be a decoy to scare off the pigeons, a modern update on those fake owls that never really work:

Really clever, as it even has camouflage effect with brown shading blending in with brick. Then it MOVED!

'I let him know if he didn’t leave he was probably going to be dinner'

By adamg - 4/8/22 - 3:50 pm

Chestnut Hill woman relives the trauma of finding a live turkey in her family room.

In an emergency, turkeys are not your friends

By adamg - 1/31/22 - 8:52 am

Turkeys blocking an ambulance in Dorchester

Ron Germán looked out his window on Upland Avenue in Dorchester this morning to see a standoff between Boston EMS and the turkey pack that rules the roost in the Melville Park area, a standoff that didn't end when the EMTs turned on their emergency lights and honked: Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Round, mean mugging turkey downtown

By adamg - 1/24/22 - 1:39 pm

A citizen filed a 311 report this afternoon that consists of a picture of a round turkey at State and Kilby streets and a single word, "turkey," in case people at 311 can't tell what they're looking at, so we're not really sure if this is a complaint, admiration or what, let alone what they want the city to do about it, or if they had to suddenly hit the Submit button before they could add more because the turkey suddenly began rolling at them like a bowling ball that really wants a strike.