Not inside the walls, but out (what did you think I meant?!).
… I had to stop my car. The turkeys were everywhere last week. I heard a Bill Engvall tell a story about turkey hunting with his dad, he said, “The only wild turkey we saw that week came out of a bottle.” I smile every time I see these guys. There were 2 toms STRUTTING their stuff… one was so outraged I had the nerve to interrupt his mid-road display when I was driving out that he merely sauntered, indignantly to the side while I drove past, and then returned to his performance (note: the ladies didn’t seem to impressed … keep trying dude).
Turkeys have blue heads. Who knew!?!!
But lest you think our IBM campus is only filled with turkey, turn to your right … and literally, on the hill opposite, you will usually see this family:
I am still amazed that we don’t see venison on the cafeteria menu 
On the campus, we also have:
- GAGGLES of Canadian geese (surely, these things are no longer endangered and hunting should be allowed again!)
- Turkey vultures (who do a very strange mating dance by holding their wings out and walking around in slow circles … there were 4 or 5 all standing in a row doing their slow dance the other day .. sadly, I was sans camera)
- Hawks … a less frequent sighting, but they’re out there
- Groundhogs … which are way, way bigger than I thought!
- And there’s rumor (though I’ve not seen myself) other exotics like foxes and even bobcats … of course, I think if there really were lots of bobcats, we’d have fewer geese … but maybe I’m missing something here.
It can make for a pretty interesting commute home … from the jungle of upstate NY, to the concrete jungle that’s become home.
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