Preferred roosting trees
#1
Preferred roosting trees
Where I hunt, the turkeys will roost 99% of the time in large pine trees. Even though I have plenty of large oaks, they will still roost in pines. I know there is not much of achoice in most of Texas, mesquites, butwhat type of tree do your turkeys prefer to roost in?
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
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RE: Preferred roosting trees
Red maples, sometimes over wet areas, sometimes not, and to a lesser degree oaks. Usually about 3/4 of the way up the tree.
The limbs they roost on are usually pretty small. I think it may let them feel a predator like a coon better than a larger limb. Just a guess though.
Come to think of it, I would like to see a coon try to kill a roosted turkey.
The limbs they roost on are usually pretty small. I think it may let them feel a predator like a coon better than a larger limb. Just a guess though.
Come to think of it, I would like to see a coon try to kill a roosted turkey.
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RE: Preferred roosting trees
Around here it seems to me they go for what ever big tree is close at hand... In my woodlot i see them in big maples and oaks... Hereby my house, they roost in a blk walnut or in a big boxwood tree by my ponds... I actually don't see any ryme or reason to which one they will choose...
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