- By Dan Veaner
- Around Town
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A wild turkey is claiming asylum from the Village of Lansing. The hen has chosen to lay her eggs in the planter outside the Village municipal office building on Triphammer Road. Because turkeys nest on the ground they are particularly susceptible to predators that can range from raccoons and skunks to opossums, crows, and snakes. And people. After mating it takes about two weeks to lay 10 to a dozen eggs, and another four weeks to incubate the eggs. Once endangered with only 2,000 birds in New York State in the late 1950s, the species has bounced back to more than 65,000 in New York alone.
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