Spring woods always have some special suprises! Several years ago I rustled my boot in the leaves and had a family of baby armadillos come to me and crawl across my boot, Also found a family of flying squirrels in an old shack . This year had an encounter with a hognose snake (spread adder), .How bout y’all?

I have watched a humming bird build a nest ,which I went back and got later. I have had black snakes crawl across my boot. Birds light on my gun barrel. Called up and killed coyotes that thought they were going to have turkey for dinner. Spring woods are special.

found a shotgun once....seemed to be a kid's. based on where/how I found it, I assume it fell off a 4 wheeler

dead racoon, wedged in the fork of a tree, about head-high off the ground. couldn't find any obvious signs of CoD.

found a pile of large stones that had very obviously been stacked, by people, about 6-7' tall and maybe 8' across the base. WAY off in the woods. (old home sight or something?)

The most special for me was when I crawled into a bottom with a small creek and a beaver pond to get close to a roosted bird. About daylight a wood duck flew out of a hole in a dead tree. Turkey was hammering on the roost, so I stayed put. 30 minutes later the wood duck hen flew back into her hole. She fluttered to the ground and next thing I knew little yellow balls of fluff were falling out of that hole like snowflakes. She gathered the little ones and they followed her towards the beaver pond. The turkey gobbled and strutted on the ridge but as usual the hens won the battle and took him the other way. Can't say that I was too disappointed. The Lord blesses us even when we don't burn any powder!

I bet that was a really awesome thing to watch!

Watched an event similar to this happen a few years ago, hen come rolling out of the swamp with her little ones behind her, they got into the beaver pond and was swimming around. I noticed movement in the water that seemed to follow them as they swam around. I then noticed a little panic in momma and she swam her little ones to the bank and out of the water and back into the woods they went. Curiosity got me so I got up and went and looked and saw a giant turtle in the pond, he was trying to get him some breakfast but just wasn't quick enough.

A couple of years ago I was sitting in a hardwood bottom working a bird that was hung up and hammering every couple of minutes. I had noticed I was in a squirrel-rich environment. There were three in the trees just ahead of me. Everything was nice and calm when all of a sudden I heard a swoosh come out of nowhere. It was a hawk that came in about mach 9 and grabbed one of those squirrels. One of the coolest things I've seen turkey hunting.

I was hunting one of my leases the other day and saw a White hawk. Anyone ever seen one? I would post pictures but I do not know how.

I saw a white hawk a couple of months ago. Thought I was losing my mind

Wasn’t hunting but saw a white crow not too long ago. Was milling around with some regular crows

I'm 61 years young and was disking my dove field in Waverly last fall. Looked up and saw this BIG WHITE Bird come gliding in and light in a Poplar tree. First Glimpse I thought Pigeon....WAY TOOOOO Damn BIG for a Pigeon. It flew to another tree and lit. I drove the tractor over to the tree and it let me get right up to the tree before it pitched out. SOLID WHITE with only a SLIGHT Dingy Color on the tips of the tail feathers. I'm thinkin' do to SIZE....it was a Red-Tail Hawk. I wished him well as he flew....Dove season opened a week later.....

Called in a mountain lion the first day I ever hunted New Mexico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OV52TL1A1E

Had to be in Alabama. Since there's so many here

Good stuff guys!

Long story short I heard a gobble a mile off one morning. No other birds where gobblin so off I went.i knew he was close to some RR tracks so I got up to the tracks and called. He answered maybe 100 + out. Well I get sat up and I start hearing a train coming.
I call again, he's closer.... waiting...train with in 300 yards and I see him . He is strutting his way to me coming down the tracks. I Yelp to him as loud as I can and he cuts me off . The engineer evidently saw him and started laying on the horn . This bird is in full strut gobblin his head off at this train and just before it runs him over he runs off the tracks on my side . While the train is thundering by I shot him.

A friend of mine was piddlin on some "public" property one time. He walked a long way down a gas line and stopped on top of a hill to listen. There is a bunch of old insulation and duct work some one dumped out there years ago. So he said it was getting good and daylight and hadn't heard anything so he hoots . When he did he said a woman woke up that was sleeping in the trash pile and ask him whatthehell are you making owl noises for?? And no she wasn't hot...

dem's panthers!

I can't imagine the itching that sleeping in insulation would cause.
Can't hardly stand to work in the attack due to the insulation up there.

Makes one appreciative of the things we often take for granted like a clean bed and a roof over our heads.


God Bless,
David B.

I’d finished hunting. It was late in the morning, nearly afternoon. Heard a high pitched squealing coming from the base of a tree with brush around it in the edge of a food plot. I go to investigate and find a snake in a rabbit nest. It had a baby rabbit in its mouth. I killed the snake and put the little bunny back in its nest. I still killed snakes back then. I’d prolly let nature take its course nowadays. Snake got to eat too.

Heard rustling in the leaves behind me for probably 30 minutes. Couldn’t take it any more, peeked around and a box turtle was slipping by.