{"id":10182,"date":"2023-03-30T21:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10182"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:35:30","slug":"turkeys-on-the-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/turkeys-on-the-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkeys on the Common"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Parish House of First Parish in Cohasset is directly opposite Cohasset Common. I&#8217;ve seen small groups of two or three Wild Turkeys skulking around in the bushes at the edges of the Parish House grounds. But today I saw about fourteen Wild Turkeys making their way across the common, out in the open, as bold as brass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least one male was gobbling. They were definitely aware of me, but they seemed to have little or no fear. Breeding season does that to many animals: reduces their level of fear, so they do stupid things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come to think of it, male humans are always in breeding season. Which explains so much about Homo spaiens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Ten of the Wild Turkeys I saw on Cohasset Common, one with its tail erect and spread.\" class=\"wp-image-10183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2346.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parish House of First Parish in Cohasset is directly opposite Cohasset Common. I&#8217;ve seen small groups of two or three Wild Turkeys skulking around in the bushes at the edges of the Parish House grounds. But today I saw about fourteen Wild Turkeys making their way across the common, out in the open, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/turkeys-on-the-common\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turkeys on the Common&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-10182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-massachusetts","tag-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}