I hope these little guys take care with Thanksgiving only 2 weeks away!
November 14, 2010
Autumn on Long Island
I took a drive up to Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island with my nieces and sister-in-law over the weekend. It is a quaint little town right on the bay. We were headed to the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery were they breed Rainbow and Brook Trout. It is an educational hatchery where you can see how they harvest eggs and then watch the fish through various stages of their life. They also have a nice little aquarium where you can see fish, snake, turtle, and toads that are native to the area. There is a stream and a small lake there where some of the fish live and breed naturally. You are allowed to fish there and take home what you catch for a small fee. The area is beautiful this time of year with the colored trees lining the hillsides. We stopped alongside a lake to admire some of the amazing views of autumn on the North Shore. Then, much to my surprise, we came across a flock of autumn fowl. There were 3 turkeys and quite a few pheasants just walking around a patch of grass alongside the road. I stopped to take a few pictures. It was wonderful - a little peek of how this area must have been rich with wildlife when the first settlers arrived here. If you get a chance to come out here, it is truly worth the trip.
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Wow! The turkeys just roam free here! I wish they would roam around like that here in the city, but they would probably get killed anyways, by a hunter or by even a passing car...
ReplyDeletehaha Ya i remember when i went somewhere i forgot where but somewhere haha and i saw turkey or something like that just walking around on teh streets. In poland, not in the city area, but everywhere else there are chicken walking around, the sneek out of the fence, because people own land and all and they still have farms, with chicken and geese And so my grandpa told me that sometimes people purposly drove into the chicken, killed them, took them and had nice dinner the next day. ;) haha maggie p6
ReplyDeleteI was once at an Ikea in New Haven, and in the parking lot and grassy areas, there were about 5 full grown turkeys, with all the feathers. They were really obese.
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