Well late in the day - what has worked for me and I found it by accident - is a Owl Hooter used real hard! One long Whoooooooooo!

I thought I had some yahoo come into my area blowing a owl call. Sounded terrible and then I saw the pair of owls doing it! It was late afternoon too!

Low and behold a tom would answer - so I tried it as I snuck to an area I was going to walk a bit - the Tom who was answering it was quite a way from me - so I hooted and had anotherr answer - I was too dang close - bird gobbled not more than 20 yards from me and it was thick - I got busted!

Long story short - I tried that for grins before I left - bird was still there! Inow have a back-up area to go to next week.

JW

Ps - thanks Rock! Good luck to you out there! Late spring for sure nd 6th looks very promising and far better than last yr. Hens are on nests - some of them - those not I do think are the ones whose nest got destroyed. Talked to quite a few in my area who have been finding destroyed nests more so than ever. I do think it is because of the slow growing cover - late spring growth - and man have I seen the yotes, skunks, and coons!