So last night I had plans to go out to my closest wma about ten minutes down the road and do a little Owl hooting to see if I could get a reaction.
That didn't work out because of the weather. It got me to thinking though..
When it's just plain nasty weather with heavy rains and lots of lightning, I know those Turkeys aren't just chilling out in the trees. If I can find their roost, wouldn't a day after a very heavy rain be ideal? I imagine they would all congregate in the morning.
Does anyone know how far they will travel from their roost? Would they go far enough away from a storm to be able to sleep, would they stay awake in the storm if they could not travel out of it, or would they sleep through it?
I'm not sure if they stay roosted all night but I would think they would even in a storm. I know I've watched them pile out of the woods during a storm and stay in the fields or plots feeding. I stayed in my blind too long a few years back when a storm was coming because I had some birds about 200 yds off. There was tornado warnings and when it hit I was praying I didn't get crushed by a falling tree or struck by lightning. It was that bad. I watched these birds feeding right through it all and after 1 1/2 hrs they finally made their way to me.
