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What the (blank) just happened!?

Started by ken613, April 14, 2012, 05:32:56 PM

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ken613

Okay. My buddy, Mike, and I were finishing out our last hour of hunting today (noon for Virginia). Had something happen that neither of us had ever seen or even heard of before.
We're set up on the edge of a small field. After no response to sporadic yelps, I let loose with a cuttin' routine.
Less than 10 seconds later, we hear a bird fly up into a tree. Now this is at something like 11:10 am. We're bothing sitting there trading dumbfounded glances at each other.
At that point, I can see the turkey. Its a gobbler, about 75 yards out up in a tree. We can also hear other turkeys walking around near that tree.
So, as I'm sitting there, I watch the gobbler limb-hop toward the field edge. He's checking the field out from the tree! He stays in the tree 3-5 minutes. Mike, who has already tagged out for the day, does a couple of soft clucks and purrs. And the gobbler leaves the tree back to the ground. We don't hear or see him any more.
We don't hear anything for 15 minutes. Its now 11:40 or so.
I make a series of yelps with a different call and I get an immediate response from a hen from the same area we figured they worked their way toward.
Two hens, then, start talking a lot and getting a little aggressive. Mike and I do the same thing. They are closing the distance quick!
Then Mike whispers, "there he is! to the right of that lone pine."
Well, my view of the right side of the pine was blocked by brush, so I never saw him. Mike said he was strutting. The hens finally turned and they worked their way back down the ridge at about 11:55.
Both of us just sort of sat there like, "What the (blank) just happened?"
I've never seen a bird fly up into a tree to check out a field.
Have any of you all?
We've named the bird "Einstein."
Hopefully, we can clear all this up by the end of the season...LOL
Ken

mdtkyhntr

I've had a hen do that to me. I had her fired up around 10:30 in the morning and she flew straight up to try to get a better look. I figure they'll do this from time to time to get a better view and try to lay eyes on that other "hen."


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mikejd

cool story. I have had it happen to me. One time I did a series of fights with my purrs and all of a sudden this bird lands in the tree above me to see whats happening. At first I paid it no mind and just assumed it was a big ol red head woodpecker until he landed and walked away. My jaw was in the leaves. I can still see it in my mind. lets hope they dont get that bright we will be finished.

Rockhound

yep happened to me last year at high noon he flew up in a tree gobbling his head off and looked around flew down and went away

Turkey Havoc

Had this happen to me for first time this year. I don't know if it was a hen or gobbler, but I was in the middle of a swamp surrounded by brush in a small clearing and had a bird fired up just on the other side of brush. Next thing I know a bird, not the one I had fired up, flew up in a tall pine tree behind me. I never could get a good look at it, and when I figured out the bird I had fired up was not coming through that brush I moved and the bird in the tree took off.
Stephen H Spraberry

milertyme03

Cousin and I were setup 15yards apart in hardwoods.  Called a hen back and forth between us about 5 times.  Finally she had enough, walked in a circle around me at the base of a tree and then flew up to limb directly above my head and about ten feet high.  She then flew off the ridge.  Good calling lesson.

davisd9

#6
I will never roost shoot a bird, but if he is limb hopping coming to my calls he can die just as easy on a limb as on the the ground, especially late morning to early afternoon.
"A turkey hen speaks when she needs to speak, and says what she needs to say, when she needs to say it. So every word a turkey speaks is for a reason." - Rev Zach Farmer