locating roosting birds
12-22-2002, 01:18 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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locating roosting birds
Just curious after reading the post "locate early ". Do the birds you hunt relocate the roost tree all the time or pretty much stay in the same trees year round . Here if you don't bother the roost tree you can find the birds in the same tree day after day .Myself I haven't hunted them that long so I'm curious as to how others hunt them.
These birds have been roosting in these trees for at least ten years .There is 72 birds in this flock right now but they thin down in the spring until its mostly just toms .
These birds have been roosting in these trees for at least ten years .There is 72 birds in this flock right now but they thin down in the spring until its mostly just toms .
12-22-2002, 06:14 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: locating roosting birds
Good question Halcon!Early in the season we have our regular roost sites also,but as the birds begin to break-up through the course of the breeding season due to dominance and huntin pressure those regular roost sites often become a thing of the past and birds will disperse into new areas.Jakes and two year olds can become pretty nomadic this time of year being run out of an area by a dominate boss gobbler!I've hunted an area one day to no avail only to return the very next day to the same stretch of woods to hear it light up with gobbling activity!I truly believe unless the birds have an established food or water site that during the peek of the spring breeding activity only boss gobblers have real home turf that they patrol for receptive hens and competing toms!Other than that often times the younger less dominate satelite gobblers have no home and do alot of traveling often times together with birds of like stature.Catch these birds together and they can be pretty loud an entertaining,but catch a satelite bird by himself and he can be pretty cautious and alot less vocal,often times coming in silent because of the boss!We have birds after break-up move in and out of our ranch's constantly and when you hunt big country locating early can get you there much quicker or at least headed in the right direction instead of waiting while the morning passes by!It's worked well for me!Bob <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!
Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!
