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Where do turkeys like to stay?
Turkeys may use traditional roost sites night after night but they generally use different sites and move from tree to tree. Turkeys usually select the largest trees available and roost as high in them as they can comfortably perch.
How do you know if there are turkeys on your land?
Look for signs, such as scratching in wooded flats, tracks and strut marks on logging roads, and scat and wing feathers near roosting spots. Slip into the woods a few mornings and listen for gobbling — not just on the roost but after flydown.
Where do turkeys go in the woods?
If an area is devoid of acres of fields, turkeys live in the woods. But they still gravitate to edges of openings like cleared power lines and blueberry barrens, and are often found lingering in selectively cut parcels and woodlots that are still relatively open.
Do turkey like open fields?
Cover – Although turkeys use forests for cover and roosting in the tall hardwood trees at night, they also like open and brushy areas for feeding, mating, nesting and rearing their young. Turkeys actually depend on a mix of open fields, pasture and forested for their survival.
Where do you find a turkey in the morning?
Hear the Turkey Using your ears to lock in on a gobbler is often the best route. I hope you like early mornings, because this is when toms sound off the most. It’s ideal to be in the woods a couple hours before daylight to sneak in under the cover of darkness and listen to toms on the roost.
Where do wild turkeys nest?
Wild Turkeys nest on the ground in dead leaves at the bases of trees, under brush piles or thick shrubbery, or occasionally in open hayfields.
Can you turkey hunt in the woods?
Focus on Open Timber Turkeys often prefer open timber with small clearings in them. And there are several reasons why they do. If there are very few places like this where you hunt, forego the fly-down hunt and set up in one of these locations. Turkey are limited as to where they can visit this type of terrain.
Do turkeys prefer woods or fields?
Gobbler and hen in ag field. Turkeys need open areas as well as woods. Turkeys love these high-protein and high-fat foods and will feed on the tender leaves and leftover grains in areas that aren’t pressured too hard. Tip: Avoid tall, unharvested wheat fields.