Framingham Nature Blog - Wildlife On Puffer Pond P2

This is a second part to last months topic. It will talk about my walk on the 8th, and my brothers football games at Cutting Field. In April, Puffer Pond is alive with Turkeys, Spring Peepers, Beavers, Groundhogs, And Great Blue Herons.

I wasn't going to write this topic until I got some unexpected close up time with a female Wild Turkey. At this time, she is most likely carrying eggs. On the 8th, I was walking at Puffer Pond. I saw Geese, Green Frogs, A Dead Water Snake, And Water Lily forests.

There was an old feild surrounding the parking area. A female turkey was foraging in it for young grasses and left over Mast (acorns and fruit) from the fall. At this point, turkeys are finishing up breeding activity, while females start building nests and carrying eggs.

She was either well habituated to people, or did not see me, because she let me get around 10 feet away from her. She kept digging and scraping the ground with her feet. clearly a part of her foraging method. About 30 feet away, a Groundhog was doing the same.

I found a wood tick on myself that night. Turkeys are tick's primary predator. An individual may eat up too 200 ticks per day. Thank god. Also, thankfully wood ticks do not spread lime desiese like deer ticks. They do however carry other deseises like RMSF.