June gobbling

[eggshell]

The last few days have been a littke cooler and we have been hearing birds gobble some. Today they were really cranking and I was tempted into getting a call out and I had two gobblers fired up in just a few minutes. I guess they are finding some hens that are renesting or late nesters, but it's just neat to hear them while we're working in the garden

[GobbleNut]

Cool, Dana.  I don't get up to the mountains here much this time of the year, but when I have, I will usually hear gobbling at dawn and dusk around our place.  Even this late, I think the gobblers are still searching for willing hens.   

[nativeks]

I was cooking on the blackstone around dusk the other night and there was a bird on the neighbor's gobbling at everything.

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[Happy]

I can't blame them. It's a little safer to chase them sexy sounding hens now that season is over.

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[Greg Massey]

The gobbling your hearing possibly could be the gathering back of what's left of the gobbler flock after the spring season. Like come and hangout over here. Gobblers have a funny way of communicating.  But again it's all part of a gobbler or hen, they are always trying to establish pecking orders year round. IMO

[eggshell]

I have heard them in past years, but the last few days have been spring like.

[WV Flopper]

 We heard one here behind the yard two weekends ago, heard one last year as well. Seems like they are laughing at me while I am in the garden?

A buddy of mine was listening to a turkey about every morning while drinking his coffee on his porch.

Last few days its been in the low 50's here but I haven't been out to listen.

[RutnNStrutn]

I live out in the country in TN and have turkeys on my property. Since the season ended gobbling has slowed down some, but I still am hearing gobbling every day. I only owl or crow call to them.

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[Tail Feathers]

Last June, middle of the month, I saw a strutter with two hens.  He must've forgotten to flip his calendar!

[Mossberg90MN]

The gobbling your hearing possibly could be the gathering back of what's left of the gobbler flock after the spring season. Like come and hangout over here. Gobblers have a funny way of communicating.  But again it's all part of a gobbler or hen, they are always trying to establish pecking orders year round. IMO

This sounds about right to me, not saying they would pass on the opportunity but I think this time of year they're trying to get link up with other gobblers and just feed away into the summer


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[Tom007]

I have heard gobbling the past few weeks while golfing real early in the morning. He gobbled one day just when I was teeing off, I got so excited I snap hooked my drive into the woods...lol. I saw some hens, but never did see him....

[Paulmyr]

This pic was taken on Aug 27th last year. It's not very good. It's part of a group of hens with thier polts. There's a brood in there that can't be more than a month old. If you look close you can see how much smaller they are than the other polts in the flock. That would put them on the ground at the end of July, incubation starting sometime around the beginning of July. These are just guesstimates from seeing the flock from a couple hundred yards away.

If my guesstimates are close to being correct that would mean breeding of that hen took place sometime in the middle to late June. This was in Northern Mn.

This year spring was about 3 weeks behind compared to last year and hens were everywhere in the 1 central and 2 north central states that I hunted. From what I've been reading on this site, spring in the southern states was lagging behind as well with good to great hatches being the norm last year. The gobblers I hunted were henned up for the majority of the spring. A week and a half ago I seen a hen laying for a tom in a field when I was driving by in central Mn.

I don't think it would to much of a stretch from my observations to say the second gobbling peak around here didn't happen until the last week of may, early June because it definitely didn't happen during the hunting season. Second and 3rd breedings are most likely still going on around here. Been about a week since the last time seen a tom strutting on my way to work in the morning.