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Hey everyone, hopefully a few of you managed to get out and into some birds...was wondering what everyone thoughts are numbers in general... up ? down?
Spent the bulk of yesterday in WMU 76...and only seen 1 bird in a field where in the past I would see 30-40+ easy driving around...any thoughts on what happened?
Thanks
The farm I hunt seems to have higher numbers than before. I have seen more turkeys in the fields around me as well. I went for work to Montreal last week and saw way more birds on the 401 corridor than I have seen before.Quote:
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Here in Norfolk numbers seem to be down. The birds seem to be everywhere they normally are but numbers are down from what I've seen driving around plus the couple of days I've been hunting. TC
I’ve been seeing birds as normal but what I did notice was a lot are females compared to males. In the last 3 hunts I saw 4 males compared to 20 hens
numbers seem about the same as they have been for a number of years here. What i am noticiing is an amazing number of owls this year. Could have an impact come hatch time.
Strange as it sounds think the birds are still in their winter flocks. Hunting nrth of shelburne, farrm has 2 hens a 3 males of which only 1 was confirmed a tom, On the north side of shelburne just on the door step counted about 40-50 birds.
Over here at the eastern part of 65 I'm seeing a lot less birds than in the past driving to work. I'm not hunting until next weekend so I'll get to properly scout the area then.
Typically,just like Deer before a season,we saw dozens of birds. After the opener,it's like someone waved a magic wand and made them all disappear (WMU73).
Turkey numbers seem way down in the Smiths Falls/Perth area, and have been trending that way for a few years.
Dr. Grant Woods feels as though the Neonic coating on modern seeds may be contributing to the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDDXbdVekI&t=499s
Like Tom Gobble said in his reply seeing a lot of single hens with no jakes or toms following them which is strange.
Saying that you wouldn't no it by what we saw on Saturday me and my buddy both got big toms by 6:05AM and then when we were at our trucks we saw at least a dozen birds in the field we just walked out of that had 3 toms and the rest were hens.
there seems to be no rhyme or reason this year
Much like "trky chsr" stated , overall numbers seem down all over in Norfolk County. I didn't hear any gobbling near me until May 12th and have only seen one hen since then. Driving around hasn't really produced any sightings either but I did almost run over two hens that ran out in front of me.
I only got to hunt one day, the place I go for turkey in crown was being logged past few years, so no access and no hunters and lots of birds.
this year sadly they made a trail and full of foot and ATV tracks, and of course not much birds to be seen ...
but around my parents cottage in Simcoe I started seeing them alot since last weekend. a flock blocked mapleview road on my way back from hunting with no birds in hand lol
In my part of southern Wellington County numbers seem to be up. Saw and heard birds more often pre-season and filling a tag seemed easier this year.
seen a ton of hens and a few toms but honestly haven't seen a Jake in my area in a few years no idea why
Imo numbers down in 87e
We limited out in 4 days .not seeing as many birds well out driving as other years.but the farms I hunt had lots of birds
We're I am, the numbers seemed to be the same for the last three years.
I dont know if that is because it's private property and nobody else hunts there has anything to do with the numbers