Tuesday checked out a couple lakes for ice.Saw a group of 40 ish birds,the last 8 where fat jakes followed by a giant strutting tom..I guess he thinks it's spring. I learned a long time ago Turkey's gobble and strut year round not just in the spring.

According to the forecast for my area of the Pennsylvania Wilds. Spring begins this coming Monday.  Temps to be 40 and hover around the mid 30s for the rest of the week.  Doesn't appear to be much difference between the highs and lows.  Bye bye ice rods, hello shotgun.
 
Pretty cool about the turkey, maybe with this mild winter those jakes will mature a bit faster in the next three months.  I might see a flock of birds twice a year around my parts, usually once in the fall and again in the spring.

Okay so we are waiting for spring gobbler.
I came home to this. My son caught 2 turkey ON the front porch.
I am taking bids on who wants to be in the chair on the right????
Whats the offers????
Oh there were ten more in the yard....
 

Man-O-Man Wags, I'd be sleeping with one eye open buddy.  Looks to me those birds ain't waiting for May to start their hunting.(lol)

I have been hearing the toms gobbling for weeks now. Just yesterday noticed the first Turkey Vultures(3/13). They may have been out earlier however I didn't notice or see them.
 
As for gobblers I occasionally hear them all year long. 

Yes gobbles gobble all year,just like we talk. But  March till June is there time to sing.

Turkeys are talking a **** load every morning and every evening around my house...
 

Saw my first flock of the new year while having coffee and, peering out my window, this morning.   About a dozen birds strutting their stuff across the road in the neighbors pasture. 

GOOD MORNING TO ME..........
25 feet from my rocking chair.......
 

Your sweet Wags,is that their dog box they roost in .lol You should have a tough first day.lol Bow range. Looks like 3 brother two-year olds.