Aggravating Morning in Va

[chbarnha]

Well im new to the forum, been reading here for a while and just decided to join. Had a very aggravating hunt this yesterday morning in Dinwiddie County. Set up on a bird that was hot, this bird gobbled nonstop on the roost. Me and a buddy set up within about eighty yards of this bird and figured we would start calling when he got off the roost. This bird gobbled over 200 times on the roost and just kept getting it. 9:15 rolls around and he is still in the tree. we watched a hen walk right under his tree and he just stayed in the tree struttin and gobbling his fool head off. finally when she finally walked off a good hundred yards or so he finally flew down and hauled freight to her. Talk about a long morning. Interesting to say the least never had a bird stay in the tree that long.

[Hookhunter]

Yesterday morning I was easing throu a creek bottom trying to locate one (about 830) when I heard really close clucks. Immediately I dropped down and scanned for the bird. I managed to get to the closest tree and sit down. The whole time the bird was vocal. I started to return the calls clucks at first then cutting and purring. The bird and I mimicked each other for about 15 minutes. Now this bottom is fairly open and the bid was no more than 15-20yds. I was stating to think I had walked up on a nest and was about to ease away. Around 850 the bird FLEW from a tree just in front of me. I had no idea it would/could still be in a tree.that late. Blew my mind I thought I was crazy or something

Justin

[TauntoHawk]

I've seen some old Toms that like to hang out in the tree until every other bird was on the ground then he would wait a little til they began to mill around and feed of and he would just pitch all the way out to them. Real frustrating when you were in close

I've bumped hens out of the trees several times from roost sites all the way out at 8 - 8:30am and been like what the heck were they still doing up there, making a nest in the tree.

[Mtneer]

Years ago I had a bird stay in the tree till after 9AM.   Eventually I watched a hen work towards him knowing that "gig was up"!  Thats when the unexpected happened!!!  Instead of him flying down to her, she actually fly up in the tree with him!!  They stayed in the tree for a 5-10 minutes and then they both flew down away from me!   For the rest of the season I  hunted that bird religiously and never even got close!!!!   While I certainly appreciated "easy" ones, its birds like that that make us obsessive about these dang birds!!!