when i first bought my little lounger chair, i set it up next to a cedar - got in nice & tight & cut lanes out of the branches - my boots were at the edge of a pasture
suddenly, i heard something walking a few yards away, behind me - eased around & it was a lone hen - she came to the pasture's edge (just below me) & dusted herself in a sandy spot
then, she walked up the pasture's edge straight towards me - as she got to me, she stopped at the soles of my boots - i could literally see her tongue flickering inside her mouth
felt like an eternity - prob was like a minute or less - but it was certainly one of the coolest, closest encounters i've had

Had a hen do this last year. Similar to the OP seeing a blob, I saw one and took a few steps toward it. Probably was 20 feet from it when she scampered away. She had just flopped down playin' possum.

^^^ that’s interesting Clem

Dang neat stories

that was one of the odder things I had seen w this gobbler the other day

Hey Fred - U sure you don’t want to tell the story of that turkey Choke out??? 🤣

And if I hd one about land on my barrel I would probably roll right before he got there

TDog, I was hunting in Greene Co on Stagshead Lodge property, using a Navy Arms 12ga black powder muzzleloader . Moist, wet air, foggy kind of morning. Didn't hear anything on the roost but I did hear one a lil later 100 er so yards across the property line. I eased over to the line, a five strand barbed wire fence, and spotted a strutting gobbler 125 yards away. I was one my knees in a patch of honey suckle, gun butt on the ground, held in my left hand. I yelped at the gobbler a couple three times, he would answer but he had a wad of hens with him. I was just watching him when I heard a gobble straight behind me...close. I slowly turned my head just as a gobbler walked out of the honeysuckle a dozen er so steps to my right. As he walked behind a 4" tree I pulled the gun to my left shoulder, aimed and fired. The bird disappeared into a huge ball of white smoke, which hung in the wet air. I heard the bird flop and jumped up and ran to him. He was under some of the honeysuckle vines, flopping very hard. I jumped on top of him, dug his head/neck out of the vines and twisted his head till it broke his neck.

I carried him back to the lodge to meet my buddys. As I was telling him how I shot the bird he said I missed him. WTH? We ended up skinning the head neck out, there were NO holes or shot damage. I completely missed him but the smoke confused him and he became tangled in the vines. The rest is history....

Got a buddy that grabbed one once only for a second tho 🤣

^^^^ JB the right ones can hurt you

Thanks Fred - dang good story - funny the things that happen while we hunt. Had a buddy that killed a double one morning - he and guy he hunted with were shaking hands and congratulating each other while standing over the turkeys and one of the birds got up and ran off 🤣🤣 he said the bird had laid motionless for a while

I bet that was a rush

Had my Ben Lee box call laying on ground in front of me and a Wren gave it a good going over, pecking at letters on box.

Seen this with turkeys and deer. We walk by a bunch of animals and never know it.

Shot one one morning, picked him up and carried him to my vehicle about 200 yards away, laid him on the ground and opened my hatch and laid my gun in . I looked down at him and his eye was blinking! Got my foot on his neck but he gave me a good leg flogging before I could get my knife to his throat....I carried him home in two pieces....

Bet it didn’t take long for the “Fight or Flight” to kick in