The Wild Turkey Mystery

When I say "Wild Turkey Abatement" I do not mean we need abstinence from Kentucky's best bourbon. Yes that picture of a wild turkey is in my own back yard. That turkey, we'll call her Wilma and her baby, we'll call her Pebbles (not pictured), flew into my backyard this afternoon over a 7 foot fence. They pecked around the Mexican poppies, yellow coriopsis and rabbit ears for a while, found the bark of the maple tree to be unsatisfactory and the mother/daughter combo flew up and perched on top of the fence and then I assume flew into the drainage ditch behind the fence, then would have waddled across Michael Ln, to the parking lot of St. Anslems Epsicoplian church to thrill the kids at the day care.
Far as I can tell from the website of the National Wild Turkey Federation the one's our back yard were Gould's Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana). I could tell this from the light brown and grey feathers and the size that it was the female of the species. But oddly they are usually only found as far north as Arizona. However, there have been sightings of them all over the East San Francisco Bay, here in Lafayette I have heard of many sightings and even in Danville. So this turkey issues gets more and more mysterious. I'm not an expert on what kind of damage these birds can cause if any, but I do not think that it will cause fewer traffic accidents for birds the size of dogs to be waddling through the streets of Lafayette, this raises the issues of Wild Turkey Abatement, maybe we will just wait until Thanksgiving, Wild Turkey is the most popular game bird in the United States.