I agree with you as well, if I don't hear birds, I tend to move a good bit. I will cover 2-3 miles of ground on foot if I don't hear birds. The Vermont hunters do tend to stay still......when I was in PA the pressure from experienced turkey hunters taught me well and it seems like shooting fish in a barrel up in Vermont where the guys setup a flock of decoys and stay put all day on the edge of the field. It almost makes the birds more predictable....they alway go to the same spots when under pressure. Hopefully my turkey hunting experience will earn me a few spots in NY for deer season.

Keep us posted on your hunts this spring, and if you ever get the itch to hunt further south shoot me a private message or email and I would love to meet up and show you some Rutland County birds. I usually don't hunt much the first week (My girlfriends b-day falls on April 30th [:@] and we usually do something that first weekend every year which means no hunting) but the second week most of the hunters are out of the woods and the birds start talking again.