Post by tjshunter13 on May 15, 2022 16:55:18 GMT -5
So my daughter and I were in the blind at first light this morning & had one spitting and drumming about 50-75 yards up the hill from us on the edge of a cedar thicket. We heard him fly down and then head away from us. I told her we should try to get ahead of him and we quickly got out of the blind, moved up the hill about 40 yards and a hen busted out from under some thick thorn and honeysuckle bushes not 20 yards past where we had set the decoys out. I walked over to where she had been sitting and four or five poults went running every which direction. I didn’t know what else to do so we backed out of there and hens started cutting and yelping all over the cedar thicket and one flew up in a tree not far from us and went on and on, cutting, putting, and cutting at us. Acting really agitated.
First off, will the hen come back to find her poults?
Secondly, will all those poults stay close until she comes back?
Lastly, were those other hens trying to attract a potential predator away from that nest or was it just coincidence that they all cut loose after she putted and flew?
First off, will the hen come back to find her poults?
Secondly, will all those poults stay close until she comes back?
Lastly, were those other hens trying to attract a potential predator away from that nest or was it just coincidence that they all cut loose after she putted and flew?
