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After hearing 4 birds in 4 locations (and actually spotting one) on Sunday morning, I went out early this morning to try and more pinpoint their locations.
Wehre on Sunday they gobbled continually from 0630 to 0700, this morning they were totally quiet.
Plenty of owls and crows, not a sound from the turkeys.
Why would this happen?

I did put out 2 trail cams, maybe I can pattern them that way this Spring.
 
Turkeys are funny like that; one day they're hammering and the next day they hush altogether. Never can tell, but wouldn't worry about it one iota.
 
They only gobble to attract hens. Sometimes when they have hens or hens in sight they dont gobble they just strut,spit and drum. They probably havent gone far.Dont worry about it. Just go back out and listen in a few days.
 
One mistake I made when I started turkey hunting was moving around too much while scouting. I would hear a bird and say, "Ok, I got him." I would then move to another spot looking for more birds.

Now, I slow down. As the season approaches, I will focus on one roost, one flock, and get to know those birds real well. Just because the birds didn't gobble doesn't mean they weren't there.

Did you get there before fly-down? If so, were you close enough to the roost to hear their wing beats?
 
It is because they are turkeys, some days they gobble some days they don't.

I said this a few weeks ago and no one listened, but scouting in early march can be a complete waste of time. A lot of the time birds will make dramatic shifts in where they live during the first 3 weeks of March. They do this for a variety of reasons, number one being hens moving to areas where they will nest once they are bred, and the gobblers follow.

I spend all winter in the woods, and the birds are henned up from mid February until the hens head to nest. I see strutters every year in February, no matter how warm or cold.

Decades of biological research has proven time after time that temperatures do not affect breeding times at all. It has everything to do with length of days, and the angle of the sun. This is common knowledge with regards to nature.
 
Like said eariler.When hens around they are quiet.Usually when Breeding is at its peak,the less Gobbles you hear.Kinda sounds like we will catch the tail end of it.One other thing is Humidity.The colder the weather the more vocal they are.
 
Setterman said:
It is because they are turkeys, some days they gobble some days they don't.

I said this a few weeks ago and no one listened, but scouting in early march can be a complete waste of time. A lot of the time birds will make dramatic shifts in where they live during the first 3 weeks of March. They do this for a variety of reasons, number one being hens moving to areas where they will nest once they are bred, and the gobblers follow.

I spend all winter in the woods, and the birds are henned up from mid February until the hens head to nest. I see strutters every year in February, no matter how warm or cold.

Decades of biological research has proven time after time that temperatures do not affect breeding times at all. It has everything to do with length of days, and the angle of the sun. This is common knowledge with regards to nature.
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Couldnt agree more,,,especially last paragraph!
 
Thanks all. This is great info.
This is my second year at this, so learning a lot.

I just have to figure out where they are roosting now. Was there before down yesterday but didn't hear them fly down from where I expect them to be.
I think I have two distinct flocks, on opposite sides of a valley separated by a road. I've never seen them cross this road.
 

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