Larry A. Smail's Blog

Monday, April 18th, found me walking the top of a hill listening for turkeys.

Fox Squirrel

I heard two gobbling towards the point of the hill. The two birds at fly down moved farther away with an occasional gobble. I moved along with them just to see what would happen.                                           

Suddenly, I realized after another pause in activity that the birds were closing in towards me. I heard hen chatter. At one time I believe the gobblers would be on my lap in moments. However, they began moving back up the hill. They entered a field on top where I had just walked across.  I eased up and saw both longbeards.    

   I maneuvered around to see a deer; rabbit, a Brown Thrasher, a pair of wood ducks on a pond, and squirrels.  Later, I heard a gobbler open up as I walked in his direction. he had clammed up for some reason. As I eased into the area he was gobbling from I saw the image of a large Fisher crossing ahead of me.

Dogwood

I tried calling for response. I called in a hen who was very vocal. A gobbler began gobbling again and was definitely coming towards me, and this hen. I saw him with four hens. One hen spotted me so I failed to get any quality photos.

This morning I was at a different place to listen. I heard five different gobblers. I saw a hen in the field. I saw a lot of deer this day. They sure were moving! I saw squirrels, one rabbit, and six mockingbirds.            

Toads!

I fished in Crooked Creek for a time. All I caught were chubs. Toads were all about making their mating sounds. I could a lot of them along the shore along with strings of eggs.

Crooked Creek