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Post by jj103 on Jun 23, 2021 11:54:40 GMT -5
When I was mowing hay yesterday I saw a hen with about 10 poults. They all made it safely out of the field
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Post by whitefalcon on Jun 24, 2021 15:55:41 GMT -5
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Post by buzz on Jun 24, 2021 17:12:56 GMT -5
I put a Turkey out yesterday brush hogging. I stopped a soon as I saw it working away through the brush, in case the poults were in tow. Never saw any but the hen fly away.
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Post by davet on Jun 24, 2021 17:17:24 GMT -5
Standing right outside my garage today and from the home across the street, across the cul-de-sac, and right down between me and my other neighbors home this fawn was running!! I'm pretty sure it's one of the twin fawn's I just saw the other day. The fawn wasn't stopping for anyone or anything!!  |
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Post by acorn20 on Aug 7, 2021 11:42:32 GMT -5
This weekend we're trimming and mowing the roads on the Bedford County property. My friend Mark showed up at 5:30 AM so that we could get an early start and beat the heat. Today we just wanted to clear the limbs and debris from the roads in readiness for tomorrow's mowing. We crossed the iron bridge on the Bedford County side of the mountain and turned right, onto the Little Creek Valley road. There's a pond on the right side and as we made the turn Mark exclaimed "Look at all the turkeys." There on the bank of the pond, in the early morning light, was forty-some turkeys. The group included four large hens with their poults. All of the poults were the same size, not as tall as the hens, but with all their mature plummage. It would have been hard to sell a decline in population based on that sighting.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 7, 2021 20:43:58 GMT -5
Must have had one heck of a good hatch!
The other week I flushed a grouse hen and three chicks, twice in a week, from about the same location. That gave me some hope for them.
I miss the grouse
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Post by acorn20 on Sept 7, 2021 10:08:27 GMT -5
A month ago I posted about a turkey sighting on our way up to the property in Bedford County. Yesterday, I went up to trim a couple shooting lanes from our new box stands. I drove around some of the surrounding roads looking for game in the early morning and spotted a few deer still out in the fields and a flock of twenty-some turkeys. My travels were going to bring me past the church where my parents and four generations of my family are buried so I drove in to pay my respects. As I approached the church, fourteen turkeys (two hens and their brood) were making their way into the woods from the lawn. I truly believe we had one of the best hatches of birds this year.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 7, 2021 12:15:40 GMT -5
A month ago I posted about a turkey sighting on our way up to the property in Bedford County. Yesterday, I went up to trim a couple shooting lanes from our new box stands. I drove around some of the surrounding roads looking for game in the early morning and spotted a few deer still out in the fields and a flock of twenty-some turkeys. My travels were going to bring me past the church where my parents and four generations of my family are buried so I drove in to pay my respects. As I approached the church, fourteen turkeys (two hens and their brood) were making their way into the woods from the lawn. I truly believe we had one of the best hatches of birds this year. My brother is bird hunting in Montana right now. This is the third or fourth year he's hunted. Putting up birds like crazy, compared to the other years. Pheasants come in sometime in mid October, and we're rare before. The other day they put up 20 from one spot. They are having a drought, so maybe the dry spring helped |
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