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Turkey Parkdale The turkey can be seen perched on top of a black SUV on Sept. 19, just before 5:20 p.m. (Angela MCcann) <\/p>\nA wild turkey has been spotted in Parkdale over the past month, with some residents politely asking the turkey to get off the street. <\/p>\n
One turkey has escaped its demise this Thanksgiving weekend, and has been spotted running afowl in a west-end Toronto neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
Angela McCann first spotted the bird near Brock Avenue and Dundas Street West around the end of August. She says she has seen him regularly since, most recently on Wednesday when she was returning home from work.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just eats the weeds and the grass beside the brick wall where the cars are parked,\u201d McCann said. \u201cHe comes up to my screen door and he looks at my cats and then he just walks away.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one video McCann shared with CTV News, taken shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 8, the turkey can be seen waddling around the street by some parked vehicles. McCann eventually ushers the bird over to the sidewalk. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was so worried about him. I\u2019m just like, \u2018Just get off the road, baby. Come on,\u2019\u201d McCann said. <\/p>\n
She says one of her neighbours had spotted the turkey chasing after a squirrel, while other neighbours have spotted the bird in their backyards \u201changing out.\u201d <\/p>\n
Stephanie Huynh says the turkey tends to take cover under the trees in their yard whenever it rains. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople call her Tina, Tina the turkey,\u201d Huynh said.<\/p>\n
In one picture, the turkey can be seen surveying the block from atop a black SUV. <\/p>\n
Turkey Parkdale The turkey can be seen perched on top of a black SUV on Sept. 19, just before 5:20 p.m. (Angela MCcann) <\/p>\n
The bird hasn\u2019t ruffled anyone\u2019s feathers, as McCann says it hasn\u2019t acted aggressively toward anyone in the neighbourhood. <\/p>\n
As cooler temperatures arrive in Toronto, McCann expressed concern for the bird.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if people are leaving out food and this and that, but he seems\u2014it doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s starving or anything,\u201d McCann said. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear where the turkey came from, but McCann wonders if he came from somewhere across the train tracks a bit further west. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s also by himself, and they\u2019re normally a flock animal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The City of Toronto confirmed to CTV News that it is aware of a wild turkey sighting in the Parkdale area, but did not say how many calls it has received about the bird. <\/p>\n
\u201cResidents who encounter a wild turkey should keep their distance, avoid feeding or approaching the animal and allow it to move away on its own,\u201d Tyler Hadley, acting manager of channel operations and customer experience at the City of Toronto, wrote in an email. <\/p>\n
\u201cFeeding wildlife can increase the negative interactions between animals and people.\u201d<\/p>\n
With files from CTV News Toronto\u2019s Beth Macdonell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild turkey has been spotted in Parkdale over the past month, with some residents politely asking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-926876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}