Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Great photos, as usual, Rick.
Gobble-gobble, lizzie. We used to get a lot of those, but no more. I guess some of them retired to FL.
I don't think they know boundaries. Cambridge at one time had a huge problem with them. A lot of the newer science building over near MIT have mirrored windows. The males were constantly attacking their own image and managed to break a few before the City took the problem seriously. Once all the males were either shot or caught, the females left the area.
The problem they had is that they take to roost after sundown. You can't shoot them in the middle of the day with pedestrian traffic and cement all around. So just before sundown you would see the cops climbing the trees to get them where they lived. In the trees. Netting them didn't work. The Toms were smarter than man. They only roosted in the lower branches. So get above them, and shoot down. If you missed, the bullet went into the grass. I am afraid the City of Cambridge was the laughing stock of the area.
When we lived in Texas, the Tom that belonged to my neighbors next door, used to chase my daughter. One day it caught up with her and took a huge chunk of flesh out of her but. Oh joy! Another trip to the ER.