Choice crabapples seem to be featured on local wildlife menus recently. Here you see a favorite fast-food spot that caters to a furry and feathered clientele. It’s an ornamental Japanese crabapple tree on the WoodenBoat School campus.
It has at least four wild turkeys dining in its higher-priced terrace seats, although only two are visible in this image. Beneath the tree, there was ample evidence that white-tailed deer have been feeding from the cheaper standup-eating section below. Deer often stand on their hind legs and nibble apples off their branches.
(Image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 18, 2021.)