“Full Strut”. Eastern Wild Turkey
May 27, 2020 22:12:03 #
This beautiful gobbler was called from the nearby woods into a grassy opening and photographed from a portable blind at a distance of about 30 yards.
May 27, 2020 22:14:30 #
May 27, 2020 23:16:33 #
May 27, 2020 23:17:51 #
Beautiful bird and photo. Did you do the calling? Pretty good to call him that far out of the woods. Does he not get hunted?
May 27, 2020 23:29:12 #
Retired CPO wrote:
Beautiful bird and photo. Did you do the calling? Pretty good to call him that far out of the woods. Does he not get hunted?
I did the calling. I hunted turkeys for over 40 years before I took up photography. I now enjoy hunting with a camera more than I did with a gun. This bird was about 45 yards from the tree line and it was midway through Turkey season.
May 27, 2020 23:30:14 #
May 27, 2020 23:37:57 #
Cly72642 wrote:
I did the calling. I hunted turkeys for over 40 years before I took up photography. I now enjoy hunting with a camera more than I did with a gun. This bird was about 45 yards from the tree line and it was midway through Turkey season.
You must have been singing him a sweet song! I used to hunt too, in a younger world. But I could never sing that sweet of a song.
May 27, 2020 23:38:22 #
Cly72642 wrote:
I did the calling. I hunted turkeys for over 40 years before I took up photography. I now enjoy hunting with a camera more than I did with a gun. This bird was about 45 yards from the tree line and it was midway through Turkey season.
May 27, 2020 23:48:05 #
Retired CPO wrote:
You must have been singing him a sweet song! I used to hunt too, in a younger world. But I could never sing that sweet of a song.
That morning I used a diaphragm call. Here are other shots of the same bird - one gobbling, then in half strut and finally in full strut.
May 27, 2020 23:52:01 #
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