They're showing off

[Paul Hoskins]

Been watching an old gobbler on the farm behind the house. He's been playing it cool with the ladies but today things changed drastically. For an hour or so, he was almost constantly in strut mode. Three other lesser gobblers joined him & things got pretty active. The three larger gobblers ganged up on what appeared to be a jake & sent him on his way in short order. Then their attention turned to each other. Strutting boy had the upper hand with both the interlopers but for some reason they called a truce & walked away together. Maybe they come to a deduction five girls wasn't worth beating each other up. The big resident bird spotted me from about 50 yards & stared at me a few minutes & when I didn't move, he turned around & mooned me. It could be he was looking at me with that third eye turkeys have. If he sticks around long enough, I want to give him something else to moon. The pictures aren't very good. The brush in front of me interfered with the autofocus. I sneaked within 50 yards of the resident because he had his attention on the girls......Paul H

[buckshot roberts]

Paul good pics........nothing like watching a turkey strut season will be here soon................still looking for a place to hunt...........Ron

[gitano]

Nice pics Paul. When does your season open?

Paul

[Paul Hoskins]

Paul, season starts April 16th here. Never been lucky enough to kill a turkey myself. Need to get that done. I'm getting old.   ......Paul H  ...ps....Had your eyes checked lately? The pictures are lousy.  ..ph

[davidlt89]

Paul, great pictures! and my eyes are fine! you need to setting the table with one those big boys. I really turkey hunting, it is fun! Hope to see a dead one soon! God Bless.

[Paul Hoskins]

David, the pictures look lousy to me & I just got new glasses Tuesday last  week. Can't see very good with them either. 200 dollars for nothing in my book. Don't really know how to operate these newfangled cameras either. My girlfriend gave me a simpler, small digital camera last week. I don't know much about it either but it's compact. .....Paul H

[gitano]

Well, photographically speaking, they could be improved, but they're still "great" pictures because of you getting the tom strutting so many times and ways.

Too often people give me "credit" for my scenery pictures when the truth of the matter is, it's the SCENERY that's "great".

Paul