Someone mentioned hard to find a bird that hasn' t been messed with. We camp in NY right on a road just inside some state land. You can' t see our vehicles if you' re driving down the road until you' re at our camp site. This is a very country rural no traffic road. One night while sitting by our fire we had no less than 7 cars come down the road and mess with birds. We' d hear them stop. They' d get out, slam the doors, wait, start slamming on a box call for all they were worth. Some would start with a crow but when they got no response they' d start whacking a box call. It happened every morning and every night. There were more people stopping and calling to those birds. Far more traffic than the road gets on the opener of gun season. Sometimes they' d pull ahead another 200 yards and do it again and again until they got to us. Then they' d drive on by a couple hundred yards and do it again.

One night we were sitting at our fire having a drink and laugh. It was 10:00 when I told a joke which set my buddy off. His laughter was drowned out by a bird roosted across the road not 150 yards from us. He had never made a sound to the nightly callers that drove by but he appreciated my joke at 10PM. I' d like to report a happy ending to the story, but we busted him setting up in the dark. Well, we busted a bird ... we thought it was him as we got no reply to our calls at first light. After about 30-45 minutes of waiting we stood up to move. He was 60 yards away still on the roost.