Beware of these testy turkeys

haha....I've seen these turkey's attach a jogger one time...>WICKED FUNNY!!

someone in the area must be feeding them

old news. Deal with it people

Omigod! A young man was NEARLY pecked by a wild turkey! Call out the National Guard, secure the perimeter, upgrade the terrorist threat level to RED.
Actually, I'm on the side of the turkeys. Man has encroached upon their territory. Perhaps it's a long overdue wildlife rebellion, run a-fowl.

Send them to Beacon Hill, to charge and peck the other turkeys we elect up there, and see if they chuckle

I work in this area on a college campus and see the turkeys all the time. They can be a pain, but they're also incredible to watch, listen to and photograph. What I have learned is that they are not too keen on the sound of jangling keys. Shake your keys at them and they'll head in the other direction. If you're too close to them with your back turned, they will come after you.

Turkey bites man..........

humans have been holding the turkeys up you mean

They were just trying to impress the ladies, so we can have more wild turkeys.

who's encroaching on whom?

What is the fine incurred for swatting them with, say, your purse or perhaps the heel of your shoe?!

Speeding truck with snowplow lowered.... solved.

FYI, they are at 5 corners in Easton as welll

This is something that we have been living with for the last couple of years in the Oak Hill part of Newton (Dedham/Wiswall road). I have witnessed these pesky T's attacking a mother and her baby in a stroller. Believe it, my wife is traumatized as a group of them surrounded her minivan and actually caused some damage to the car. She was terrified. Personally, if I had been there they could have taken their chances and I would have just driven on.... I later learned from animal control that I could have been in big trouble as they are "protected". I am an animal lover, but that is crazy. I keep urging my wife to keep something on hand to protect herself from harassment. But she prefers to reverse and change direction when she spots them.....

someone has to give these birds a hard kick in the face to get them on their way

So this is what all those Turkeys are up to. They're planning an attack!

Shall we say "Make Way for Turkeys"

You wouldn't "chuckle" if they pecked or hit you with the spurs on their legs (which you can see in the photo right at the base of the foot-about 1" long). Turkeys only go where food is. Clearly, well-meaning, but misguided people are feeding them. This causes them to associate people with food and, if someone then fails to feed them, they become aggressive. Ironically, the more people feed them, the more likely they'll have to be killed by Game Officers. Releasing them in the "wild" doesn't work if they'll been feed by people because they will always thereafter associate people with food.

Massachusetts Wildlife Management officials should trap and relocate the wild turkeys to wilderness areas of the state rather than letting them roam the streets of Boston and Brookline. The current situation is simply a hazard for the turkeys as well as for people. Turkeys are aggressive and not afraid of people. Would we let bears roam the streets of Boston? No. Nor should we let wild turkeys roam the city.

There were five turkeys in the area earlier this winter and fall. They seemed to be a family, a tom and hen and their three offspring (two jennies and a jake). I've twice played "make way for turkeys" on my way to and from BU. As the pictures show they're not at all afraid of humans or cars. Makes you wonder if someone in the area is feeding them.

Doubtful they're being fed...I could be wrong. Bottom line is, don't feed them, they're looking around for their food. I've seen these guys (the turkeys) go about their business in Brookline, and they will stay focused unless you seem interesed in what they' re doing. I think they're scouting out available parking spaces in Brookline.

We've got them in Newtonville, too.

I have seen many turkeys all over Newton...

look, im waiting by the door for turkey season, maybe we can push it back a month and ill take care of this problem for you :)

send them all to Dillons Turkey Farm on Cape Cod

These turkeys are beautiful majestic animals that deserve the use of the street as much as any "mother" or "child." If a child gets pecked, he should peck the turkey back. That way the turkey will know that the child should be respected. From then on, that when it smells that particular child's scent, the turkey will prepare a delicious chicken sandwich and have it ready for the child as the child comes sauntering down the street, comfortable with his newfound self-esteem. Turkeys can help us all.

In the 1700s, Benjamin Franklin, born here in Boston, introduced the wild turkey as a candidate for the U.S. National Bird. The other guys thought an eagle was a tougher symbol for a new country that had just beaten the British army in a colonial rebellion.
Maybe the entire course of the USA, to date, would have been different if the common wild turkey was imprinted upon our coins and national emblems instead of the rare bald eagle.
I can envision a gobbling wild turkey pecking at the lens on Steven Colbert's
"Colbert Report " rather than a swooping, shrieking eagle. Much funnier image!

In the 1700s, Benjamin Franklin, born here in Boston, introduced the wild turkey as a candidate for the U.S. National Bird. The other guys thought an eagle was a tougher symbol for a new country that had just beaten the British army in a colonial rebellion.
Maybe the entire course of the USA, to date, would have been different if the common wild turkey was imprinted upon our coins and national emblems instead of the rare bald eagle.
I can envision a gobbling wild turkey pecking at the lens on Steven Colbert's
"Colbert Report " rather than a swooping, shrieking eagle. Much funnier image!

I'm a Brookline resident and I live nearby the Longwood area where these Turkeys hang out. I love the fact that we have wild turkeys in our neighborhood and would never want anything to happen to them.

This morning i was walking down kent street and noticed 2 turkeys on the sidewalk, but i see them all the time going to/from work so I wasn't alarmed...until i realized that i was being followed. I started to walk faster, then THEY started to walk faster, so i started to run, then THEY started to run. Pretty soon they were chasing after me all the way down the street clucking and being creepy, i was scared I was going to get eaten! Fortunately they were no match for my speed and i lost them as I turn the corner onto longwood ave. close call. they must know that I eat turkey wraps all the time for lunch and be trying to send me a message!