Under the bird feeders

Last Thursday/Friday (11/15-16) we got about 9 inches of snow. On Saturday, I cleaned off the deck and set up the bird feeders (and of course the squirrels love them too ).

Yesterday I looked out to see what birds were there and then saw these (took the picture today 11/21) and snow is melting so not so great picture). Now why can't they come around during turkey season??? When the snow was there you could see they were pretty good sized tracks, no babies in this crowd.

:roll: I'm thinkin.......they appear to be stealing food from the indigenous species causing much stress and strife...........yeah, that's what I would tell the game warden.......

They don't come out during turkey season because you don't put the food out then!

cool picture Ron, and yes thats how they do it around here, run out of the woods, 10 or 12 of them , run around the bird feeder in a frenzy, and poof, back into the woods......... 8) :roll: :wink:

Tyrone, Dan, et al,
We see them all year long in the fields behind our house EXCEPT during the PA Spring and Fall turkey seasons. They can be pretty smart when they want to.

"Yes Mr. Warden, I wasn't baiting the turkeys I was putting out bird seed for the birds and the turkey's decided to high jack the food, so I shot one because he was the most greedy!!"

Those tracks don't look like any turkey tracks I have seen! More like ptarmigan. Short fat toes.
gramps

Let's see; I sell noise suppressors and was testing one when this large gobbler ran right in front of where I was aiming. :roll:

gramps said:

Those tracks don't look like any turkey tracks I have seen! More like ptarmigan. Short fat toes.
gramps

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That's probably because I took the pictures several days after they were made and we had quite a bit of melt (rain and warmer weather). I know the are turkeys, we have a lot of them and see them regularly (between the turkey hunting seasons - at those times they just seem to disappear )


"Let's see; I sell noise suppressors and was testing one when this large gobbler ran right in front of where I was aiming. :roll:"

Frank, they wouldn't know anything (even the neighbors wouldn't) if I had used one of my suppressed .22's and shot one (or more) in the head. :wink: :wink:

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These guys were under my Son's bird feeder a few days (nights) ago.





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contender said:

They don't come out during turkey season because you don't put the food out then!

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In my experience turkeys read the calendar as well as we do.