Hawk??

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I was taking pics of 5 longbeards eating in my backyard. Suddenly they perked up and started making some kind of excited cluck/purring sound. A hawk swooped down thru the flock and then flew up and landed on a tree nearby. The hawk wasn't 1/2 the size as the turkeys. They got skittish and walked away after a minute or so. Anyone seen this before? What was that hawk thinking?

Edit - now they are back, lol

Edit again - hawk flew down, they chased him back up, finally he flew down again and grabbed some kind of dead critter and flew off with it.

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Now he flew down again and grabbed some sort of dead critter and flew off with it. I guess that would explain it
 
I think the hawk wants one of your runngunning stickers to put on his wings. He wants to be on your team.
 
I had a buddy that was hunting a food plot at LBL with his nephew several years ago on the youth hunt when a mature Bald Eagle swooped in out of nowhere and snatched up their Feather Flex hen decoy and flew away with it. He found it the next season in the same area with talon marks in it.
 
SKFOOTER said:
I had a buddy that was hunting LBL with his nephew several years ago on the youth hunt when a mature Bald Eagle swooped in out of nowhere and snatched up their Feather Flex hen decoy and flew away with it. He found it the next season in the same area with talon marks in it.
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that's pretty cool
 
http://www.amazon.com/Illumination-Flat ... 1599211971

If you've never read this book, you need to do so immediately. This guy was a biologist and recovered several eggs from partially destroyed nests. Hatched and imprinted the turkeys and basically moved into the wild and raised them as wild turkeys (granted with a diminished fear of humans). Learned their vocalizations and the body language. Kept notes every day and turned it all into this book.

Apparently (as described in this book) turkeys have an inherent fear of all birds of prey because they are so often targeted as chicks. This lasts even into their adulthood. They will at times get startled by buzzards flying overhead, but after the initial fright, they can distinguish the harmless buzzard from a hawk, even at great distance.
 
Last year I had a hen decoy out and was gettin ready to head up the mtn side to some birds that were gobbling Anyways I stood up and turned around to take a leak when I heard " whappp" I jerked my head around to see a big chicken hawk flyin away at ground level and my decoy wobblin on its stake
 
Wes Parrish said:
Southern Sportsman said:
http://www.amazon.com/Illumination-Flatwoods-Season-Wild-Turkey/dp/1599211971

If you've never read this book, you need to do so immediately.
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It's also been made into a documentary DVD:
"My Life as a Turkey".
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I've seen that documentary online, very cool
 
Cat, i did get the bones. Thank you very much. I sent you a PM a couple days ago.

I have not seen the documentary, but the book is fantastic. The details that he explains about turkeys is phenomenal. Things you would never think of. Turkeys can remember, and will avoid, a place where a snake has scared them im the past. Makes you think twice about calling from the same spot days after bumping a bird.
 
I nee to read the book because a 1 hour documentary can only cover so much. I didn't get the PM, must be a glitch, glad you got the bones and sorry it took so long.

I've been observing turkeys up very close and personal by feeding them in my backyard and I never tire of watching them.
 

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