I walked the ridges out back today- ZIPPO sign- in keeping with the zero Acorn crop this past  year the Turks have changed their eating habits. Like the Deer last Fall and early Winter the Turks  too are very low. Nada to eat up top.
  Good thing there is an early Spring- the bugs will be out in the fields early too. Guess it'l be tick fed wild Turkey steada those lousy corn fed tame ones.

Those buggers are like rats in the south hills. Seeing them every day in multiple fields on my drive into work and going through Round Hill Park, it is like a pinball machine with them flying from one hill to the next.

Also seeing a lot of road killed ditch chickens this spring. I have seen 4 so far and only a couple live ones on top of that. Mild winter probably helped their survival, until the cars got them.

Good luck with the turks. Don't know if I'll even get out after them this year.

Hello eyesandgillz, I saw 8 on Tuesday morning. They were in Zimmermans' storage fenced lot. For you nonlocals---that's on Large Hill route 51 South before Elizabeth bridge. 5 gobblers and 3 hens. 3 of the big boys had 10" beards and 2 were over 10". I used to hunt across 51 there before they posted it. Always held a few big bucks and some nice gobblers.
I live opposite side of 51 from Round Hill. Haven't got into the woods yet, but hitting the box call every morning and evening for a week or more . Finally got a reply Monday morning. Guy down the street had 35 in his yard every morning for 2 weeks. Now has not seen them for past 3 weeks. Maybe they like the Elizabeth Twp fields better than the Forward Twp fields.I look forward to SUMMER gobbler season.....

Videoed a 4 yr old layin it to a hen yesterday, pretty cool stuff.