Post by HighCotton on May 9, 2015 17:46:39 GMT -5
But always a nature lovin' bird watcher! After guiding hunts this season, I decided to give her one last go for a bird this morning. Setmup in the blind and started hearing all kinds of commotion next to me. As it got a bit lighter, I saw the culprits. Some hungry baby robins making quite a ruckus!
I started with the wingbone yelper to see if I could raise a gobble down at Little York a bit before 6 am. That's early so I laid off for a bit. Over the next few hours I called every which way but loose with every call I had. Nothing! Around 8 am this fella lit right outside the blind just a few feet away. As I snapped this pic:
The pileated woodpecker chattered off and immediately a gobbler cut loose about 50 yds away down in the creek bottom. I'm gonna have to get one of those calls! And he had tons of company...must have been the little ladies from the local hens auxillary havin a convention! I could not draw him up to save my bacon. Whooped and drenched from head to toe from the heat, I had to call it a wrap for this year as I had tons of work today at one of my rentals.
I'm no where as interested in turkeys as whitetails and upland game. Plus I simply love to guide hunts and have had a great season by that note for this year.
For me, all I saw today makes the hunt totally worthwhile!
I would have put this on live from the woods but I was so drenched that my phone soaked through the Otterbox and it has just dried out in the last hour. It would onlynwork sporadically through the day.
And so my season ends...but on a happy note.
I did knock 4 of these suckers out of the air with my trusty weapon of choice...a $1 Goodwill special Dunlop tennis racket
I started with the wingbone yelper to see if I could raise a gobble down at Little York a bit before 6 am. That's early so I laid off for a bit. Over the next few hours I called every which way but loose with every call I had. Nothing! Around 8 am this fella lit right outside the blind just a few feet away. As I snapped this pic:
The pileated woodpecker chattered off and immediately a gobbler cut loose about 50 yds away down in the creek bottom. I'm gonna have to get one of those calls! And he had tons of company...must have been the little ladies from the local hens auxillary havin a convention! I could not draw him up to save my bacon. Whooped and drenched from head to toe from the heat, I had to call it a wrap for this year as I had tons of work today at one of my rentals.
I'm no where as interested in turkeys as whitetails and upland game. Plus I simply love to guide hunts and have had a great season by that note for this year.
For me, all I saw today makes the hunt totally worthwhile!
I would have put this on live from the woods but I was so drenched that my phone soaked through the Otterbox and it has just dried out in the last hour. It would onlynwork sporadically through the day.
And so my season ends...but on a happy note.
I did knock 4 of these suckers out of the air with my trusty weapon of choice...a $1 Goodwill special Dunlop tennis racket
