I've been (conservatively) hunting an area where I killed my first bird last year and my son got one on this years opening day of youth season. I hunted it last week and heard birds gobbling on the roost in all directions and some were very close but my hunt was interrupted by the farmer's yard dogs. I waited a full week before going back and set up there earlier than usual on Thursday morning with my fan on a stake. The morning silence was interrupted by gobbling in all directions, one was close to the edge of the wheat field that I was set up in. Shortly after daybreak a hen came into the wheat field where an old tree had fallen into the field and followed a ditch straight to my truck. Thirty minutes later, the gobbler came into the field and when he got to the end of the tree, he strutted in the small area at the end of the fallen tree where there was no wheat for over an hour. I would call to him and he would cut me off every time but eventually he went in the same direction that the hen did. When he left the field, I slipped out to my truck and called it a day. Well, Saturday morning my son and I set up early inside the field's edge near the fallen tree and waited. We never heard a single bird all morning. I couldn't believe it!!! I know that I had heard at least 5 different birds on Thursday morning, some close and some far away. What do you guys supposed happened to these birds? How should I change my strategy? BTW, he gobbled the entire time that he was in the field. This is about a 6 acre field. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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