Gangsta Turkeys ruffle our feathers

By Joanie Allbee

SAUGUS – Gobble, gobble, and it’s not Thanksgiving. It’s the gangsta turkeys running amok with their posse around Heritage Heights.

If you like a good morning scare to get the blood pumping like a jolt of espresso, these turkeys will make it happen. Turkeys are staged in bushes ready to boisterously pop, startle and stalk. If you hesitate before getting in your car, there’s a turkey waiting to hop your ride. Often, they make it difficult to open doors as they accompany you right in, and closing the doors might clip a feather from these fine birds of nonsense. These negative attention-seekers are found banging beaks on front glass doors.

A few people are accused of feeding these wildlife, but no food passed through their hands.

Feathers float down as you’re sitting, and if you look up you may find a lofting bowling ball above your head on low branches. Low-hanging branches are unable to support the heftiness of these tree loungers, so usually a branch tumbles. When you see fallen branches and feathers around, you know the gangsta bird is near.

  Editor’s Note: Joanie Allbee is a frequent contributor to The Saugus Advocate who has been watching the menacing movements of the gangsta turkeys near where she lives.