I've been seeing a couple of different winter gobbler flocks in my area over the past few days. One that's about a mile from my property has five and another that I've seen near the house has nine birds. What seems a bit unusual to me is that both flocks are all long beards, not a single jake in either flock. In prior years there would almost always be a few jakes mixed in with the winter gobbler flocks. Not sure what that means for future years or if this is just an early spring thing that I never noticed before but this coming season should be awesome with so many mature gobblers in the area.
This morning I heard what I thought was a single gobbler near the house just before daybreak. About an hour later I saw the same group of nine birds on my powerline that I had seen a few days before. I tried uploading some photos but no go. However, I did post this video to youtube of part of the same group that was taken this morning by a trail camera.