{"id":1513,"date":"2014-06-04T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:56:35","slug":"wild-turkey-on-spectacle-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/wild-turkey-on-spectacle-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkey on Spectacle Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To our great surprise, we crossed paths with a wild turkey yesterday on Spectacle Island.  We knew turkeys weren&#8217;t strong fliers, so how does one get to the Boston Harbor Islands?<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1514\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/turkey1.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Turkey on Spectacle Island\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/turkey1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/turkey1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Turkey on Spectacle Island<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTurkeys have also been reported this year on Peddock&#8217;s Island (<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist?subID=S18578223\">a flock of four<\/a>) and on Thompson&#8217;s Island (<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist?subID=S18646135\">a flock of ten<\/a>).  Peddock&#8217;s is less than 0.3 miles from Hull and Thompson&#8217;s is a little over 0.3 miles from Quincy.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=fU25LOYnVokC&#038;pg=PA222&#038;lpg=PA222\"><i>North American Wildlife<\/i><\/a> by Marshall Cavendish, wild turkeys can stay airborne for a quarter of a mile with the longest recorded flight at one mile.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe the turkeys flew.  A turkey on Thompson Island could then fly the 0.6 miles to Spectacle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1515\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/turkey2.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Turkey on Spectacle Island\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/turkey2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/turkey2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Turkey on Spectacle Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s another possibility.  Did you know that turkeys can swim?  According to an article in the <i>Bangor Daily News<\/i>, a wild turkey was <a href=\"http:\/\/outthere.bangordailynews.com\/2014\/05\/15\/outdoor-recreation\/do-wild-turkeys-swim-in-the-ocean-you-bet\/\">spotted swimming<\/a> from an island off Maine to the mainland.  Maybe Boston&#8217;s turkeys have taken to the water as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist?subID=S18685594\">Complete e-bird checklist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To our great surprise, we crossed paths with a wild turkey yesterday on Spectacle Island. We knew turkeys weren&#8217;t strong fliers, so how does one get to the Boston Harbor Islands?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,190,318,493,419,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}