Adventures

I went up to my friend's farm...he has a couple of huge corn fields..we pulled up to the fields in  tractor..got out and walked the woodline..we saw 30 birds..6-7 of which were gobblers..they're around!

We had a flock as big as 30 in the yard here a month or so ago. Now, it seems like they've broken up a bit. Recently, there was a gobbler here along with 3 jakes. Later a group of seven hens showed up. Seems like the big winter flocks are breaking up.

large flocks like ones that have 82 birds eventually break up and spread out once the pecking order gets hammered out in relation to breeding. i counted 110 birds on a farm in wv earlier this year, that became 63 for a bit, and now 43 or 44 birds there now. coyotes keep flocks together too, more eyes means more piece of mind. something about that: last couple of seasons in one area, gobblers where tree hopping to calls and decoys, one day last season with b-mobile a gobbler ran some three hundred yards and stopped dead about 75 yds out, turned right and flew away, next a coyote trotted onto the scene!#%! my buddies got some coyote hounds, killed 14 coyotes from that starting point this past winter, hope this puts the birds at ease...