4/7/2017
This past Thursday started out windier and colder than I had anticipated. I started at a spot where I harvested a couple of deer in the fall of 2016. In the past I’d only observed some tracks and very little turkey sign. By 6:30 am I was standing on a hill top in anticipation of hearing at least one distant gobble. Twenty minutes went by and nothing. Not a tree yelp, cluck, or gobble. I quickly abandoned that spot and returned to my original scouting location.
7:00 am rolled around and quickly heard three different toms, one of which was on public land. I made a fast loop to the south and east of my parking area to get a closer confirmation of his location. From the sound of his gobbles, he must roost on public and then fly off to the east on private ground. Knowing little about this spot, I went ahead and deployed to one of my new Covert cameras in hopes of catching some afternoon pictures of turkeys feeding in a field near where this bird was roosted. I am anxious to see how Covert’s time lapse feature works. After the camera was set, I hustled back to the truck. Driving off to the east I observed a hen with what looked like to be a two-year old tom. I imagine that this was the gobbler that I heard off to the east of my second listening location. Figuring these birds out has been trickier than I thought it would be.