RE: Roosting Birds
What part of VA are you hunting?
I got a bird this morning in Brunswick County. I hunted there yesterday as well with the girlfriend. Heard birds early, but not late.
When I roost birds, I usually just sit somewhere I can hear well and listen. Honestly, the best call I know of in VA for getting a bird to gobble once he has flown up to a tree for the night is a goose call. That, or the ubiquitous car horn.
Strategy wise, this has been a very odd year. Birds only seem to be shock gobbling for the most part or gobbling at each other. Likely due to the weather fluctuations, and a STRONG number of hens. I have had hens twice almost run me over from behind this year trying to get to the gobbler I have been calling to. Its Waffle House time when that happens....