Can two weeks make such a difference?
Oct. 11th, 2022 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
necturusToday I'm at WUMB in Dorchester, MA. I always come here by T, and my walk to the station from JFK/UMass and climbing the usual three flights of stairs left me feeling weak and out of breath, which it didn't do before Covid. Evidently it took more out of me than I thought. I will take the train to Wellesley this afternooon and walk home from there instead of using the Needham train; the exercise will do me good, I think.
There were two wild turkeys strutting around on the grounds of Boston College High School, which I pass on my way to the station. I am always amused to see turkeys in the city; when I was a child in upstate New York you had to go way out into the hinterlands to see them, and they were extremely shy. They invaded the Boston suburbs in the late 1990s and have now joined Cooper's hawks and peregrine falcons as urban wildlife. People pass turkeys on the sidewalks of Cambridge as if they were just another denizen of the city. That's not bad for a forest-dwelling bird that was extirpated from the state by 1850, when almost all of Massachusetts was farm land.
There were two wild turkeys strutting around on the grounds of Boston College High School, which I pass on my way to the station. I am always amused to see turkeys in the city; when I was a child in upstate New York you had to go way out into the hinterlands to see them, and they were extremely shy. They invaded the Boston suburbs in the late 1990s and have now joined Cooper's hawks and peregrine falcons as urban wildlife. People pass turkeys on the sidewalks of Cambridge as if they were just another denizen of the city. That's not bad for a forest-dwelling bird that was extirpated from the state by 1850, when almost all of Massachusetts was farm land.
