Anybody seeing any late breeding - still strutting here but no breeding.

[Hawkfarm]

I've got several hens that come around the farm house daily, sometimes in loose groups and sometimes individually.  Based on the time of day I see them I'd guess they are not sitting on nests and have lost their eggs.  I've watched hens being bred as late as the first week in June when the nests were wiped out by spring flooding.  I'm still seeing toms strutting but have seen no late breeding here.   Anybody seeing any late breeding?  Here are some pictures from last week of some carryovers for next year.

[stinkpickle]

I saw breeding last Wednesday evening in NC Kansas.

[Spring_Woods]

How close were you to those birds? Nice pictures. That hen has a nice beard!

In Ohio, the temps have been really warm. Besides that, I think they're pretty much done.

[gobbler336]

look at the spurs on that one strutting away from the pic. 

[CB on the run]

  My son counted a flock of 21 birds,mostly hens, in a New York field yesterday.  We had an exceptionally warm March and a terrible April plus two prior very poor nesting seasons.  I don't know if they bred very early here or it's very late.  They should be sitting on their nests now here, not flocked up in a field.  He saw 66 birds total while driving to a work site in SW New York.

CB

[regleixner]

Beautiful Pics!!  If you dont mind me asking what kind of camera do you have and if its an slr  how big of a zoom lens do you have?   Im looking for a camera that takes pics like that.

[marshboy]

Awesome pics!
What state are you in?  There are still plenty strutting and gobbling here in Northern Iowa in mid-May.
Greg

[flintlock]

Great pics Hawkfarm!
   


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