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Started by Gobbling Buck, February 23, 2011, 02:27:09 AM
Quote from: Gobbling Buck on February 23, 2011, 02:27:09 AMWhat are the most individual birds you've ever heard gobble from one location?Some will think I'm stretching the truth, but I heard right at 30 different birds sound off from one location in the same morning. Only once and I didn't even know there were that many birds on the property. The timber company that owned the land was spraying BASF on the planted pine seedling to control the broadleaf plants.....and every time the helicopter would bank to make another pass, the birds would hammer. The chopping sound of the helo made them crazy that morning. I hung in there because I had 3 long beards interrested in my calls and thought they were coming in. Then the pilot needed to refill the herbicide and landed in a green field behind the birds and I don't know where they went after that. I really can't make this stuff up either.
Quote from: FireFly908 on February 23, 2011, 08:09:31 AMQuote from: Gobbling Buck on February 23, 2011, 02:27:09 AMI don't doubt you at all, but when you stated you heard right at 30, how are you sure it wasn't 31 or 32, etc? I'm not really questioning you, I am truly wondering how you could count that many gobbles so specifically.The area I had set up was a head of timber that came out into a clear cut. The terrain is very hilly and there are several draws that held trees large enough for the birds to roost. They were long thin strips of timber and were basically 360 degrees around me......and being in a clear cut, you can hear a gobble a long ways off. When the helo would bank and chop the air, they would just start one right after the other.....now there very well could have been several gobbles from some of the same birds, but it was one of the most impressive gobbling mornings I've ever heard or heard of, and that was my best estimate of what I was hearing. I was just kinda' wondering if anyone else has ever had a similar experience with anything that made birds sound off like mad.
Quote from: Gobbling Buck on February 23, 2011, 02:27:09 AMI don't doubt you at all, but when you stated you heard right at 30, how are you sure it wasn't 31 or 32, etc? I'm not really questioning you, I am truly wondering how you could count that many gobbles so specifically.
Quote from: turkey_slayer on February 23, 2011, 09:32:49 AMHeres a pic from where we would listen from. We would hike to the top of the mountain and get upon this cliff edge and listen. Hardest part was figuring out which one we wanted to go after.
