First Real Sign of Spring

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We don’t have many turkey in our county, but it is always encouraging to get one on camera. Hopefully the CRP project will help increase the population. I look forward to being home and seeing if one will respond to a locator call.

 

[fingers]

Just heard my first gobble of the year a few minutes ago.

 

[Turkey Creek]

I have a bird or two wander by my cameras. A real nice one today. The outfitter down the road baits the hell out of them so they congregate there for the most part.

 

[Native Hunter]

We have a good crop. Second pic is Toms 10 yards from my deer blind just off the roost. Last fall I could see them in the trees when daylight came.

 

[FeelsLikeFar]

I've seen two strutting turkeys in the last two day at home in the burbs. The biggest turkey I've ever seen in my life (in real life or in photos/videos) lives a couple blocks away. Cartoonishly large. The neighborhood folks must be feeding it because there's no way it would be that big eating bugs and what not. I cut down a side street last night in hopes of catching a glimpse of him. Saw him in a yard, pulled over to watch him strut. Gave a couple of poult Kee-Kee whistles and made him gobble twice. I can never get of focused picture of him though because it's always at last light when I see him.

The other was today leaving work. "What is that big round brown thing in the woods?" A big tom in strut.

 

[SwampCat]

We have a good crop. Second pic is Toms 10 yards from my deer blind just off the roost. Last fall I could see them in the trees when daylight came.

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If those gobblers service all those hens, they are going to be dead from exhaustion before season opens

 

[SwampCat]

Turkeys were strutting and gobbling at my place end of Jan with snow and ice on the ground.