In a top secret, black ops trip a week ago, one of my turkey brothers and I swapped hunting hotspots on two WMAs that we both had been drawn for this year. I went back to one of the locations Sunday morning to listen and as I was slipping down this trail, a hen clucks twice off to my right. Immediately a gobbler hammers off to my left about 100 yards away on the other side of the creek. He winds up gobbling about 6-7 times before shutting up. I ease further down the trail to a food plot and sit down to see if anything would move into it to get a quick bite of breakfast. After half an hour or so I spot some white moving through the woods on the far end of the plot. I get my binoculars on it and get a clear view of what looks to be a white coyote. Not grey, white. He left and I backed out. I plan on being back there Friday evening to roost the gobbler.
I checked another spot and found a set of big gobbler tracks walking a woods road. Looks like he walked the road in the afternoon since we had some pretty hard rains most of the day Saturday and the tracks showed only a little rain blotting. This gives me an idea as to when he likes to cover this area.
Two good indicators of two good birds. Good weather forecast and opening day - Saturday should be a BLAST!
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