Larry A. Smail's Blog

  I had some things on my agenda this day! I was to meet a friend at the Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society  Kittanning, Pennsylvania to replace an air conditioner. (The air conditioner was in the Mildred Lankerd-Thomas Genealogical  Library division of the museum.) My step father, Bob was feeling well enough to hunt so I thought I would go to a site near my old homestead and scout for turkeys prior to going for breakfast at mom’s home.

Antler shed

  I walked a long field to a listening point. At 5:30 A.M. the winds began to blow and the clouds rolled in. I didn’t hear any gobbling so I began a trek along a field’s edge and I heard a gobbler prior to six in the morning. The interesting aspect to this was that I spotted a turkey in a tree at the exact same time. This bird had its neck stretched out. I was busted. however, the bird close to this bird still gobbled. I backtracked hearing about ten gobbles.

Virginia Bluebells

I walked back across a field to check another hollow seeing a deer and a squirrel. I, also, saw my first Scarlet Tanager and Indigo Bunting of the season. I looked for morels too while I was walking about. Shortly, I spotted a gobbler about fifty or sixty yards from me. he was strutting among the bottomland skunk cabbage. I didn’t try to call him in any closer. I just watched him do his thing for the hen.                       

I erected two bird houses along the field’s edge and was at the homestead by 7:35 to prepare for the bacon!!!!! I visited for a couple of hours before heading to Kittanning.

I think I may go fishing tomorrow and hit the turkey woods again next week.

White Trillium