It stormed pretty heavily last night. I got up wondering what that had done to the turkeys. So I grabbed my coffee thermos and a boat cushion and headed out. Lily the beagle found her way out of the house and came along too. We went as far as the entrance to Virginia before encountering a gobbler still on the roost at the head of The Left Leg, a small creek running down the east side of Virginia. I set up in a treeline and recorded about 15 minutes of gobbling.

Shortly into it, another gobbler, The Garbage Pit Bandit showed up. He came in on me close enough that I had to pack up and move. After a while, I realized Garbage Pit had acquired a new apprentice gobbler. All told, I caught about 15 minutes of gobbling before the action died down. That’s Part I of this podcast.

Part II is after things had petered out, and I decided to walk back with Lily to the house. If you look up at the header of the weblog, you can see the view of the barns, the fog in Hootin’ Holler and a three flocks of turkeys. The big tree is off on the right.

Podcast Part I: Up the Left Leg and the Garbage Pit Bandit

Podcast Part II: On the way Back from the Left Leg

I also found this collection of pics from last year. It has shots of just about everywhere I was this morning.

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