I feel better about all the marks I leave on Google Maps now XD


This is the only problem I face with the private property I hunt. It's on the side of a mountain and the majority of the property is open field. The lower third of said property is mostly forested with a small stream running through it, but a really steep drop off makes getting down there a pain and I've never seen a bird or sign of a bird down there, not even a call. It's at the bottom of the mountain and becomes a sort of gully, so while I thought birds might travel down there for water, again, never seen or heard them so I'm wondering if the all day shade keeps them away from it.

Every bird I've ever seen or heard has been in the fields at the top of the property. I can hear them gobbling on the roost at the top of the mountain, but the property I hunt starts a quarter of the way down the mountain so I can't get up there. Google Maps tells me there's a clearing right on the top of the mountain that I know they must be using. The birds I do get to see all seem to come from one of two directions, straight down from the top of the mountain or from a 4-wheeler road that comes down from the other property to ours. Of the seven large fields though, they always seem to cross through one particular one, so that's where I've been hanging out the last couple years. So, there isn't much scouting to do up there. I've yet to hear or see a bird roost on the property, so I'm left with guessing when and where they might come down in our field. Not the best way to hunt, especially since I grew up on scouting for the birds, but it's all I've got to work with on that property anyway. But... if scouting is an option wherever you hunt, do it.