Yesterday morning I heard my first gobble of the year. I always like to record when I hear a tom sound off for the initial time every late winter/early spring. I was walking on our rural Southwest Virginia road when the turkey gobbled. Interestingly, the temperature was in the upper 20s, the wind was blowing though slightly, and the morning was heavily overcast - not exactly prime gobbling conditions.
So what did the gobble mean? Was a tom preparing to assembly a harem of hens. Did he see some hens from his roost? Or did he gobbler just because he felt like it? Who really knows?
