Putting birds to sleep/roosting

[Techy]

Alright I have never put birds to sleep or roosted them (which ever terminology is prefered) before. I have found roosts, but I am curious as to how you do it. Do you follow the birds to the roost? Or do you shock call them at duck and try to pin point where it is?

[snowdog2]

Both. I've gone to potential roosting sites before dark and sat and waited and listened to locate roosted birds, and I have cruised and locator-called for shock gobbling, especially when I don't know of potential roost sites. (See my post, "Second Scouting Report" for how I located roosting birds earlier this week.) If you go out before dark and sit near (i.e., 100-200 yards away from) a potential roost site, and it is a calm evening, you can usually hear their wingbeats as they fly up. That doesn't tell you that you are necessarily hearing a tom vs a hen, though, so I usually wait until the flying up has ended and then test with a locator call, usually coyote, sometimes owl to see if I can elicit a gobble. If you sit near a site, wait until dark before you leave, though, so you don't make them relocate.