A buddy of mine is a cop. Last night while working he watched two longbeards from roughly midnight on strut n gobble at each other on the ground through a fence. I've been at this over 30 years and live in the woods watching turks nearly every day n have never seen this behavior. Anyone else seen such a thing or have ideas. He said they kept at it all night
Ghosts maybe.
Was it a barnyard fence? ;D Never heard of such. It goes counter to their survival instinct.
Oh crap!! They are going nocturnal on us. They really are smart.
Does he live in Colorado?
No but I did see a lone hen walking through a field one night spot lighting.
Say what??? Wow
Quote from: Bigspurs68 on February 25, 2015, 08:32:23 PM
Oh crap!! They are going nocturnal on us. They really are smart.
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: Great I will never kill another one...
I've seen them move from roost tree to roost tree at night and be several hundred yards from where they were the evening before, but never on the ground strutting at night.
Gman
I wasn't there but my bud is a longtime friend and turkey Hunter. He said it was a fence, I'm thinking because of where he works which is suburbs it's chain link. He said he watched em all night and another cop mentioned it too. I have zero answer to what he saw n guess no one else does either
Quote from: drenalinld on February 25, 2015, 08:37:08 PM
Does he live in Colorado?
ah shoot I just got that. No he doesn't live in Colorado but I bet people see strange stuff there too
Strutting and gobbling at night on the ground is a good way to get eaten by a coyote around here.
Never heard of that at all.
In urban/suburban areas where the ambient light levels are high enough I've seen all sorts of bird activity pretty much around the clock. No reason turkeys should be any different so I'd assume that's what was going on.
Quote from: Bigspurs68 on February 25, 2015, 08:32:23 PM
Oh crap!! They are going nocturnal on us. They really are smart.
Yup, and developing a sense of smell.
Quote from: alloutdoors on February 25, 2015, 09:33:46 PM
In urban/suburban areas where the ambient light levels are high enough I've seen all sorts of bird activity pretty much around the clock. No reason turkeys should be any different so I'd assume that's what was going on.
Didn't consider that, but your right.
Quote from: alloutdoors on February 25, 2015, 09:33:46 PM
In urban/suburban areas where the ambient light levels are high enough I've seen all sorts of bird activity pretty much around the clock. No reason turkeys should be any different so I'd assume that's what was going on.
well that actually could make some sense. I have to ask about light. I know when I've worked nights in those type areas song birds are up crazy hours
Quote from: Bowguy on February 25, 2015, 09:37:57 PM
well that actually could make some sense. I have to ask about light. I know when I've worked nights in those type areas song birds are up crazy hours
Yeah, several years ago I was working a consulting job in the LaSalle, IL area. I work in the wildlife field and worked primarily on bats for quite a stretch so we worked all kinds of odd hours. The hotel we stayed at on this particular job was on the edge of town and lit up with a whole bunch of flood lights at night. We were there in the spring time and the bird activity around the hotel never stopped. I was surprised birds weren't just dropping dead from exhaustion, they never stopped singing. Didn't matter if it was one in the afternoon or one in the morning, the birds were up and singing their fool heads off.
I know Rios will gobble all night long. First time I noticed that was about 4:00 in the morning before a bow hunt during the early KS archery season. Coyote howled and they started gobbling and never quit until they flew down.
Last year in Washington I tent camped the night before opening day. Some gobblers/jakes ended up roosting 80-100 yards from me and gobbled all night at coyotes and pheasants. Worst night of sleep ever!
Quote from: Spring Creek Calls on February 25, 2015, 09:36:04 PM
Quote from: Bigspurs68 on February 25, 2015, 08:32:23 PM
Oh crap!! They are going nocturnal on us. They really are smart.
Yup, and developing a sense of smell.
If thats the case, then we will never kill one.
Well if it had been in AL or MS I would say it was uncle Ben and Bob Dixon reincarnated trying to see who could gobble the longest !
:gobble:
:gobble:
Interesting. If it was a chain link or hogwire fence, my guess would be that they were trying to get to each other to fight and neither of them could figure out how to get through the fence, and neither one would back down either.
I'm going to stay away from hunting the urban nocturnal smelling turkeys and stick to the good ol country toms :z-guntootsmiley:
Quote from: porcupine on February 26, 2015, 05:23:41 PM
I'm going to stay away from hunting the urban nocturnal smelling turkeys and stick to the good ol country toms :z-guntootsmiley:
me too brother