This is what I saw in North Bend.

[Russ McDonald]

So this is what I saw in North Bend this last weekend.  In the middle of the intersection by the outlets.  Stopping cars and pecking at bumpers.

[Fowlweather25]

Wow, awesome!

[mkcj]

That's a nice big bird.

[dawei]

No beard? hhhmmmmm?

[Russ McDonald]

I think a young jake I saw and small tuft starting.  There was lots of color in its head which I don't think hen have lots of color but I am used to Rio's in Northern California.  I could be wrong though.  I have compared and to me it looks like a eastern.

[lewy]

looks like a marriam to me

[Russ McDonald]

Ok I got different pictures from a bad angle.  Did some more research and I does look like a Merriam.

[bobcat]

Maybe domestic?   

[seth30]

I see them often in Whidbey Island always near a road.  I think they are domestic as well.  I just cant see wild chicks surviving in the wet foilage.

[Russ McDonald]

Turkeys adapt to their environments.  Minnesota didn't have turkeys and now most of the state has them now.  I grew up in Minnesota kind of a wet state there too.  I watched that turkey head of into the woods too.  So if it was a pet it got loose.

[scottfrick]

ha ha such a small world. My wife and I took a trip up to north bend on sunday the 19th to check out the under armour outlet store and saw this same thing. when we saw it there were 4 staters chasing it on foot trying to get it off the road.

[doyourtime89]

Maybe domestic?   

 
this is what I was thinking too

[BOWHUNTER45]

this is funny I just read this post ... I was in Stanwood fixing a buddies roof when all sudden hear gobbling coming from a patch of woods behind his house  I get off the roof and I hear it again ... So I go ask him if he ever seen turkeys in his field and he said no .... No sooner I mention it and 4 gobblers come out into the field and as I try to get closer to get a picture they run into the woods... I will need to investigate this when I have time ...   People seem to be turning birds loose everywhere which is illegal but it seems no one gives a rats arz ....I really do not care but the state does 

[mallard79]

There are small flocks of easterns int northern king, snohomish and skagit counties. The birds from the Cle Elum area seem to be slowly moving west as well. We see more and more along I-90........

[Russ McDonald]

ha ha such a small world. My wife and I took a trip up to north bend on sunday the 19th to check out the under armour outlet store and saw this same thing. when we saw it there were 4 staters chasing it on foot trying to get it off the road.

Yeah that is the second day I saw it.  Was over at O'riellys get some parts for my Yukon.  I live up by rattle snake lake as was outside about an hour ago and heard some hens yelping.