Subject: Turkey sighting
Date: Apr 27 16:00:16 2001
From: Ray Gelotte - raygel at olypen.com


Yesterday, Thursday April 26, was on my way home after a disappointing time
at Bowerman Basin, when an event made my day. Heading North on Hwy 109
somewhere around Ocean City, at around 5 PM, I saw
a TURKEY walking along the edge of the road and woods! Traffic and no
shoulder made it impossible to stop and I didn't see much detail. It was a
dark bird and there was some bronze iridescence in the plumage. Sorry, no
more details. It seemed an improbable place for an escaped domestic and even
more improbable place for a wild one.
Have there been any sightings of wild Turkey in the Pacific Northwest or
report of escaped birds in that area?

Ray from Port Angeles