RE: when do turkeys appear? i never see or here them,
If you are hunting public land, (personally), I wouldn't count on the birds being in the fields as soon as season comes in. Every idiot in MD will be trying to kill them. BUt it is a good start to actually see turkeys.
Here in SC, most are still in their winter patterns. I have been seeing more with the hot winter we are having. In a month or so, they are everywhere.