Did you get a turkey from Boultons? Will there be pie? We don’t do turkey on Thanksgiving, which is lucky for the Gabriola wild turkeys (like this one) who roam our neighbourhood and vex the dog.
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Remember I wrote about the turkey in our yard, and then about the Gabriola turkeys wandering along the road? Well, somehow this turkey thing we’ve got happening here on on Gabriola has become big news. First I heard from two newspapers, explaining that they were going to do an article about our turkeys. One wanted [...]
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There are 25 wild turkeys in this particular flock. I met them on South Road at Lochinvar, just across the street from the Gabriola Museum. Later they moved up the road a bit to the Gabriola RCMP Station. And later? They’ll be at your house, oh yes they will, terrorizing your dog. That turkey at [...]
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We’ve been amused by peacocks in other people’s neighbourhoods around Gabriola, because — ha ha! — it’s funny and the birds are interesting. I’ve even blogged about Morri H. Mostow’s Gabriola peacocks. We’ve been equally amused at other kinds of free-range fowl who seem to wander anywhere they please on other parts of the island. [...]
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