We have not noticed any excessive amount of them in our Southern NH yard this year. I am very diligent about cutting the underbrush in the fenced-in portion of our woods (where our dog roams) early in the Spring. It seems to help a lot and I think that since I started doing so the tick population dwindles each year. Probably won't help you too much this year but if you can go to town with a brush cutting blade equipped weed trimmer every Spring (not near the water though!), you may be able to keep them at bay in the future. Awful little bugs, I shudder just thinking of them crawling on me.
How does one encourage wild turkeys to hang around? I hear they like dairy farms. We see them a lot in our front yard, but I've done nothing to encourage (or discourage...) them and I live nowhere near a dairy farm (few horse farms though). Interesting birds. It's amazing how well they've thrived since hunting groups re-established them a few years ago. I hear the big Toms are pretty tough to hunt.
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