Originally Posted by
Ethanb2141
. Basically will turkeys cross canals after coming off the roost on their own I always hear people saying they hate to fly.
And to answer this question - if they will exert the energy to fly over the canal to roost, then they will definitely exert less energy to glide over it in the morning.
However...
Although I have no experience hunting Florida, in other parts of the country I've hunted, most turkeys will not enter and exit their roost from the same exact spot on the ground. The exception to that is if the roost trees are located on the fringe of a large wooded section and the birds are roosted on the edge of an opening - but even there, they typically exhibit somewhat of a 'triangular pattern' of entering/exiting the roost trees - they fly up from the southwest and pitch down 90 degrees away towards the southeast, etc.