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Started by WV Sawmiller, March 01, 2018, 06:28:32 PM

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submarinesailor

 Did you say "Turkeys?"



burtle

Seen 30 or so yesterday afternoon around 4pm right after an all day rain.

I checked my trail cameras on public ground. I had 5-6 walking around in the afternoons.

I'm ready to go!

April 9th-13th. (First season here in Illinois)

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WV Sawmiller

  Just had a handful of hens come down with at least one big gobbler in the group. He was strutting from time to time and had a beard dragging the ground when he walked.

That's the big guys beard touching the ground.

Strutting again. My wife can't remember the term strut and always says "He fuzzed out."
Howard Green
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WV Sawmiller

  Oh yeah, one other thing my wife noted and I noted it again today - we have a big fox squirrel who tags along with the flock of turkeys. Evidently they are scratching up something he likes too. It is happening too often to be an accident. He is deliberately hanging out with them.
Howard Green
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Magicman

That old squirrel has learned a trick.  I regularly see deer and turkeys together.  Maybe they both know where the good food source (acorns) are or one is uncovering for the other?  Maybe it is the security of more eyes watching for danger?  Maybe they all grew up together and are friends?  I have watched both sorta playfully chase the other.
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Autocar

Fuzzed out ! :D :D :D That works for me, I am ready also just a few more weeks
Bill

Magicman

I had a Daughter with me turkey hunting and she said, "that one is pumped up".  :o  :D
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WV Sawmiller

   We saw neat animal associations in Africa. Impala liked to hang out with Baboons who were among the most alert animals out there. Very hard to sneak up on a troop of baboons. Old bulls of different species who had been kicked out of the herd would hang out together. Common to see an old bull elephant with old bull rhino and old bull giraffe and a old bull cape buffalo. Companionship and safety for all and no competing for same foods in most cases. I saw an old bull Blue Wildebeest hanging out with 50-60 impala fawns on a trip to Kruger Nat'l Park in S. Africa. I nicknamed him Uncle Remus.

    A little off topic but I became less opposed to trophy hunting there. Not for me but very wealthy hunters come over from Europe and USA and such and would spend tons of money to go shoot a big old lion or cape buffalo or elephant or such. Hundreds of thousands of dollars would be spent into the local economy for a single animal. The trophies these guys wanted were typically already past their prime and no longer part of the breeding population anyway. They were neat for tourists like me to see and photograph but they were not going to add to the future population of their species. Younger, stronger herd bulls had already kicked them out and were maintaining the various animal harems. JMHO.
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Chuck White

Turkeys are strutting in the snow covered fields in this area, and have been heard gobbling in the woods now for a couple of weeks!
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WV Sawmiller

   I was gone most all day yesterday and Becky said the hens came down and she looked up and saw 3 big gobblers in full strut prance all the way down the hillside to join the ladies. They had beards that looked like paintbrushes. She took several pictures for her files and such. In a couple you can see the bright red head on him as he was really excited.
Howard Green
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SwampDonkey

My brother sees a few up in the trees once in awhile. Roosting like chickens. ;D I have not laid eyes on one for weeks, just not lucky. ;)

I've been observing the robins returning to the north.
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WV Sawmiller

   We have had plenty of robins last few weeks. Ground is so wet the worms are drowning and all the birds are feasting. I took ATV up with a bale of hay and spotted a couple of squirrels and one chipmunk in the field then saw a big gobbler inside the fence running the fence line. He ran back and forth several times before he finally flew. I may have to start taking a gun with me when our season opens next month.
Howard Green
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Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

Logger RK

We have been seeing Turkeys for a few years now. Being from N/W Wisconsin it's a new thing. I'm 57 & never seen any years ago. But we did have some mild winters lately.

SwampDonkey

Ones we get here were introduced into Maine. We never had turkey here before. Old guides would have written about them. All they mentioned here was bear, moose, caribou, grouse and salmon. Not even white tail deer here before 1910 or later. ;D
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Quote from: SwampDonkey on April 03, 2018, 11:51:39 AM
Ones we get here were introduced into Maine. We never had turkey here before. Old guides would have written about them. All they mentioned here was bear, moose, caribou, grouse and salmon. Not even white tail deer here before 1910 or later. ;D
Swampdonkey although I have seen several turkeys when travelling or working in your area over the past few years I had not seen any in this region until just the other day.  There was 5 just down the road from my place.  They seem to be expanding there range every year.
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WV Sawmiller

  Our spring season starts tomorrow but weather report is for rain so I don't think I will chase them till Tuesday.

   I did find a pile of feathers beside a cherry log I was moving to the mill in the pasture yesterday. Some bird did not have a good day! They looked like guinea feathers and I I first thought was a turkey chick but it is too early for young ones yet this year. It might have been a grouse but I don't see many of them here. I assume a fox or more likely a coyote or bobcat caught it. More likely a hawk. We found a more complete skeleton last year when my 10 y/o gd and i were looking for fawns and box turtles. The head was still there so i assume hawk.
Howard Green
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Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

thecfarm

I forgot when Maine introduced the turkeys. They did better than the caribou. I saw the turkeys for years about 45 minutes from me. Took them a long time to get to me. Went for a pizza one day and saw them about 15 minutes from me. The next year they was on my land.
My Dad said there was no gray squirrels here when he was growing up. Always seemed odd to hear him say that,but the turkeys are the same way. No turkeys here until about 2005?
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