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I should have had 52 wild turkeys on my table last Thanksgiving. Not that I have a voracious appetite or anything like that, but because those birds did so much damage to my gardens and blueberry and hay fields last year. They pulled up newly transplanted cabbage and broccoli plants and discovered sprouting corn seeds while dusting in another plot.
They started eating blueberries in early July and beat me to the raspberry patch just about every morning. Hay fields had paths through them and I am sure that their poop got baled up with the clover and herd’s grass. With bird flu on the rise, I propose a bounty on all wild turkeys in Maine. Say $100 for each dead bird. $5,200 would cover some of my loss.
Ernest James
Charlotte
