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Do turkeys wait until very last light to go to roost? Do they spend time on the limb in the middle of the day or keep on the move all day?
 
I've heard and seen them fly up at about dusk. In my experience I've seen turkeys pretty much all day roaming around.
 
Depends on foliage and sometimes just the birds. With green woods they tend to fly up sooner, sometimes a little before sunset. With open woods or fields they may roost at or slightly after sunset. But there are no rules. They fly up when they want to


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They usually fly down at daylight, walk around nervous all day, and fly up just before dark. But like cat said, an individual turkey will do what it wants when it wants. Sometimes weather affects their roosting. In river bottoms, they may stay in trees for a week or more during high water.
 
Birds will definitely fly up in trees if they feel it is safer in the middle of the day. I've seen them on numerous occasions fly up into trees to avoid coyotes. Watched them sit there, sometimes strutting on the limb, for over an hour till they feel it is safe to fly down. I've also seen them fly up into trees to get a better vantage while calling them in.

but mostly, they just fly up right at dusk... now they may limb-hop for over 100 yards and not sleep in the original tree they flew up into, however... seen that over 100 times over the years.
 
megalomaniac":2yk3jkah said:
but mostly, they just fly up right at dusk... now they may limb-hop for over 100 yards and not sleep in the original tree they flew up into, however... seen that over 100 times over the years.
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Particularly annoying when you roost one in a specific tree, slip in super early and set up tight, and at daylight he gobbles 150 yards away.
 
Southern Sportsman":1tqkvsub said:
megalomaniac":1tqkvsub said:
but mostly, they just fly up right at dusk... now they may limb-hop for over 100 yards and not sleep in the original tree they flew up into, however... seen that over 100 times over the years.
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Particularly annoying when you roost one in a specific tree, slip in super early and set up tight, and at daylight he gobbles 150 yards away.
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VERY!
 
I was walking by a lone pin oak on the side of a bean field to set up for an afternoon hunt during the fall season not looking for turkeys and flushed out 5 hens and a nice tom from the tree. They held in there until I was about 75 yds. from them and flew out almost giving me cardiac arrest. I didn't know if they might have seen me and gone up in the tree or were just taking a break off the ground. I have never seen this behavior before and thought if they had seen me they would have run rather than fly up. They could have seen me park about 300 yds away and I was not watching for birds at the time.
 
Turkeys and trees... Usually you won't get close to them without them bailing out... even in the dark. I just love it when I'm deer hunting and climb my tree, get all hooked up and settled in, and then they decide to let you know they're right over your head as they take flight. Pucker factor of 10.
 

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