Pics From This Weekends Turkey Hunt

LifeNRA · May 7, 2005

Seen a lot of birds this weekend but could not get close enough! LOL! Here are some of the birds we were watching from the hillside on the farm we hunted this weekend. My brother shot a jake last weekend, my father got a jake this weekend. I had my heart on the one big gobbler we seen Friday night glassing the fields.

There were NINE LONGBEARDS here in the afternoon! Naturally, we can not hunt past 12 NOON here in PA. Which I would rather do than shoot two birds. This was about 5PM.

Here is where we first seen them, accross the field after we were trout fishing in the stream that flows through the farm.

We went for a drive that afternoon, my father wanted to show me this overlook he found. The altitude is almost 1500 feet. The farm is at 600 feet above sea level. The wind was swirlling around very good too!

We actually found a few turkeys walking around in this one field, I just wish I had a stronger zoom. The 10 and 15 power binos that my father and brother were using seen them fine.

This mountain side is used by hand-gliders they had a small ramp they run off of, also a windsock to judge the wind speed.

On the way up the mountain, we spotted this gobbler in full strut for three hens. Again, the camera is zoomed to the max! But the black dot in the middle is the gobbler, just inside the plowed field.

It just seemed that all the activity was way beyond the camera's eye! I really wished I could have gotten closer.

Shaun_300 · May 8, 2005