After getting the coffee started this morning I stepped out on the front porch and saw a group of 4 tons taking a stroll across a neighbor’s yard. I grabbed the picture just before they decided that trucking down the street suited them better. Sure caught some drivers unaware.
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Is that not super common in roch? Here in the twin cities they are everywhere.
Is that not super common in roch? Here in the twin cities they are everywhere.
We’ve had turkeys walk across fresh concrete more times the. I can count working in the metro.
The most birds and biggest birds I see are near the u of m. But working in the twin cities I see far more turkeys at work then I do further north.
Yeah yeah but we’re talking about the feathered kind, Ron.
The biggest Turkey I’ve ever seen was on Lyndale and 70th in Richfield.
Yeah yeah but we’re talking about the feathered kind, Ron.
What, not those jive ass turkey. Lol
We.ve had turkeys roost on our garage roof so, yes, they’re a common thing here. One of the last jobs I did before I retired was in the historic “Pill Hill” area, a ground level deck replacement. The home was only three blocks from St. Mary’s Hospital and every morning turkeys roosting in a huge old oak, whose canopy spread over the deck, would fly down and pick acorns off the deck with me working on it. That was 12 years ago.
In spite of seeing turkeys quite often here in town it never ceases to amaze me how adaptable the birds are and how people oriented they can become. It amazes me even more how many people that live here do not realize how much wildlife exists inside the city. I was sitting at a stop light on my way deer hunting one morning about two blocks from home when aa coyote came off a grassy area near the corner and sat down right next to the van on the sidewalk, maybe 15 feet away.
Adaptable bird, no doubt about it.
Go to a grave yard with in the city and you are bound to see deer. The one off Hiawatha holds one of the biggest bucks I’ve seen with my own eyes.
Go to a grave yard with in the city and you are bound to see deer. The one off Hiawatha holds one of the biggest bucks I’ve seen with my own eyes.
I think I know that location. There is a cemetery near Cedar and Franklin that had a huge buck a few years ago, too. We live near Diamond Lake (crosstown area) and there were a few deer running around here last winter.
The turkeys near us are mean as hell. One chased my wife down on a walk and a neighbor had to rescue her by bringing food out. Neighbors think it’s a good idea to feed them so when we they see a walker they think they are getting a meal. They like to snarl up traffic on the off ramp at 35w and diamond lake some mornings.
Neighbors think it’s a good idea to feed them
People should not be feeding them. That’s where the root of the problem is. They learn to rely on people.
The city of Moorhead, MN years ago had such a problem with wild turkeys in the city limits that they had to do a round up of some and relocate them. They were getting aggressive towards postal workers. One mail carrier likened it to “being attacked by a modern day pack of velociraptors.” 
Once they found out who was feeding them, that was cut off and the birds moved on.
Yeah people feeding them think they are doing a good deed, but they never are. They will fend for themselves.
I was in Moorhead when the turkeys were getting to be a problem. That mailman was my mailman. They had huge flocks chasing people down. I have pictures of being stopped at the light at Concordia College and the flocks using the crosswalk to get to the football fields. Being that close to the schools, drunken turkey fighting wasn’t uncommon and no one felt bad for the birds. The birds are still there but they stick to the cemeteries and the river bottom more now.
I was in Moorhead when the turkeys were getting to be a problem. That mailman was my mailman. They had huge flocks chasing people down. I have pictures of being stopped at the light at Concordia College and the flocks using the crosswalk to get to the football fields. Being that close to the schools, drunken turkey fighting wasn’t uncommon and no one felt bad for the birds. The birds are still there but they stick to the cemeteries and the river bottom more now.
Too funny.
I was working by that college in the spring of 2020, there were turkeys running around everywhere lol
Here’s a video I took there using one of my stupid human tricks (voice calling turkeys) 
About a minute in I pan over to some birds gobbling right next to the college.
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LOL that is funny. That’s actually pretty good calling if you’re doing it just out of your mouth without a mouth call too.
LOL that is funny. That’s actually pretty good calling if you’re doing it just out of your mouth without a mouth call too.
Yep, that’s without any sort of call in my mouth.
I’ve killed a few turkeys over the years just using my “voice” (if you can call it that lol)
A few years ago a turkey decided to guard a 4 way intersection near me and attack cars as they tried to cross. Caused pretty long backups and some news crew came out to film it 
Yup, they are everywhere. The DNR should open up the seasons at the minimum (ie buy one tag and use it whenever you want), or personally I’d love it if they just added it to small games license like grouse.
As for deer, I’m very confident the highest concentration of trophy bucks are within the 694/494 loop and a couple miles outside of it.
B-man have you even hit puberty yet? By the sounds of it I dont think so LOL
Yup, they are everywhere. The DNR should open up the seasons at the minimum (ie buy one tag and use it whenever you want), or personally I’d love it if they just added it to small games license like grouse.
The problem is that these are city birds, which are generally not permitted to be hunted. Some areas allow archery hunting but the ones we’re talking about in this thread definitely cannot be hunted with a shotgun. These city dwelling birds act nothing like the ones in the country that you are trying to hunt either. Those ones are much tougher to hunt, have a fear of people, and the 25% spring success rate indicates that.
Turkey populations are not bullet proof. Take a look at some states to our south like Kanas and Nebraska. They used to allow the harvest of multiple birds each season including a hen. Habitat destruction and over harvest has decimated their numbers.
Hunting hens is not a good idea.
Hunting hens is not a good idea.
I was gonna say those look like hens to me.
Had this Tom watching my back a couple weeks ago in south Minneapolis.
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