[EBB Sightings] wild turkeys in Oakland backyards

Good points. As an Oaklander myself, I tend to be a bit Oakland centric. The "East Bay" is a big place, and my statement was overly broad. 

Still, it wasn't until after John first mentioned them on this list (I don't remember the date exactly) that I started seeing and hearing them in Oakland myself, in the hills behind my house and in various Oakland urban areas. I have seen them in Marin and along the north coast and Sierra foothills for years...

Somebody on this list must know the date of the first verified wild turkey sighting for urban Oakland...?
 
Debbie Viess 

--- On Sun, 4/19/09, David Brostoff  wrote:

> From: David Brostoff 
> Subject: Re: [EBB Sightings] wild turkeys in Oakland backyards
> To: "EBB Sightings" 
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 7:58 PM
> At 11:03 AM -0700 on 4/19/09, debbie viess wrote:
> > Turkeys have been spreading slowly but surely
> throughout the East Bay, ever since John Harris' first
> report of a couple of birds on the Mills College campus,
> three years ago or so.
> 
> I have been fascinated with this phenomenon since my first
> sighting in Berkeley in 2004. (Others saw them in Berkeley
> as early as 2003
> .)
> 
> Apparently they have been here since at least 2002
> .
> 
> David
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