The 25 hens I had everyday have not been through in a week. I know of one field ( that I am not paying to hunt) that has 20 to 60 every day for the last 2 months. Are they coming to the bean fields searching for left over beans or for bugs and green up

Turkeys will change up their routes. Look for their food

There’s so many food sources starting to green up now it’s difficult to pin point where they want to be. And, ppl are starting to put out feed, which changes their behavior.

For most of Alabama, the preferred foods right before turkey season consist of “naturally occurring” piles of whole corn, scratch, feed wheat, milo, and grain sorghum that mysteriously show up every spring around March first. All are virtually guaranteed to make your resident birds relocate.

Yep

They LOVE Clover and all sorts of the young grasses that are popping up. They'll also eat Wild Onions.....But MAN does there Breath smell bad when you kill on of those onion eaters and flip him over your shoulder!!

eating a lot of bugs now too

Well I have glassed several hundred acres every morning this week. Seen well over 125 birds Monday. Seen 0 Tuesday. Seen 10 in a pasture that the water was receding from today .Some club members still have cameras on corn fields no turkeys this week but a lot of deer. A lot still have horns.There has definitely been a shift in patterns this week. I haven’t listened yet but they have to be spending a lot more time in the timber what are they eating there? It is not anything they are being fed either

Honey buns an marlboro reds

Lots of bugs/inverts and vertebrates under the leaves this time of year. Also, on some of the drier west and south slopes there are still some acorns that arent rotten yet... but it is close.

Well I looked this evening 0 turkeys in the fields. This is quite interesting. The best days are rainy mornings so Friday may be a good time to see what they do

Sun flower seeds and crickets

Turkeys do not live in an open field 24/7 unless that’s about all they have…

They have not hit the fields that they have been in everyday like clockwork. They haven’t been in them period. Zilch,nada. What I wandered about was what their diet was right now. My wife says I don’t make myself clear so maybe I didn’t. Ben Rodgers Lee used to say in his seminars that if you wanted to kill him you needed to be set up at the mill when he got paid

Wouldn’t trying to be smart, turkeys have plenty to eat in the hardwoods when the weather permits them to feel comfortable, in there to eat it. Weather creates food, plus it makes a turkey feel more different, to me, than any other animal.

While out working today I noticed a lone hen and gobbler blowed up in a field. They used this field every day for about 3 weeks. I haven’t seen any in it for about a week and a half until today. I have seen them in the timber surrounding this field but not in it…. FWIW

I seen one in a mexicans yard eatin dog food yesterday

Better than eating Mexican

Id like to see one eat a whole mexican…thadbesumpn

If I’m lucky enough to kill one, I like to see what he’s been feeding on. I’ve seen birds with completely empty crops, and I’ve seen them full of that yellow yelper. 🥴