I’m no duck hunter and live in the mountains where flooded timber isn’t really a thing, so take this with a grain of salt. But in the places I hunt in South Carolina where I’ve seen wood ducks and small tracts of flooded timber I’ve observed turkeys roost over the water. When they flew the next morning, though, they always pitched to dry land. I’ve never seen one walk through so much as a trickle of water. Seen them hop creeks, cross logs, pace back and forth like they were at a fence row, fly across, but never wade water. Roosting over water makes great sense, may even be preferable, but I’ve just never seen them wade anything.
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