Over the weekend I came upon several animals in distress or worse.
In less than 1/2 mile on the I-95 turnpike I observed 2 dead deer. How anyone can go fast enough on the traffic clogged road to hurt anything is amazing. The stretch between Greenwich and Norwalk is constantly jammed with cars, too many cars, too little road. But there they were two deer obviously struck dead by cars. The deer in the headlights phrase surely applies.
Later in the weekend on Hope Street, a local but well traveled road in Stamford I witnessed a wild turkey trying to navigate the double line, a screaming, well intentioned woman, obviously trying to scare the bird who even without her, was doing the the turkey's version of deer in the headlights. Unlike the deer, the bird was able to escape the traffic, jumped over a wall and back into the "woods" of CT.
You would think by now both species would have received the memo that they are not welcomed in these parts and that their life was in danger, so adapt. Time to get out of town and head for the calmer, quieter confines of ugh, ugh,ugh..... Greenland?
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