Jerry here's a pic from today..snow has already melted off. Man this guy has a rope! "Horse's Tail" might make a good name for him.

Steve ya gonna set a blind by the crick and get after em with yer widder?

LOL I just looked at my file and I have taken 687 still images of turkeys (plus some videos)

a few more from today





and one from Thursday

Horse Tail  

Yup, that is a one rope!! My bro' watched a Tom breed a hen today in the yard and guys wonder why it is a little harder to kill birds up north a bit, we do not open until May 1st. Nice Pics buddy!! Shawn

I can't get over how much vegetation you have already. In NY we have near zero, nice pics. By the way that's a tube!

Nice pics as usual lil buddy! I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that one of those gobblers will stick around just long enough for you or Di to kill him.

wow!!! real nice looking birds they dont look like that over here. over here they look like somthing the cat draged in. LOL!!  

I'd love to see some of those picture put on targets. Neat stuff!

Mickey,
      your pictures are always awesome and inspiring as i love photography and turkeys especially. could you please post a pic on the photography forum and tell us about your camera, lens and set up? maybe give us a few tips on how to get such awesome pic's. the last pic of the ole boss strutting is breathtaking!! that for sure is a boss gobbler!

Ken it's all camera, it's nothing I'm doing.The camera is a Fuji Finepix S5200 digital with 10X zoom. It takes 5 megapixel pictures and with the memory card on low res will take several hundred pics. I can tell you to take better pics with more contrast to take pics early morning or early evening when the sun is not so bright. That's about all I know about taking pictures.

Oh and take a lot, some of them will come out good. LOL

You had me worried for a minute there Mickey!    I read the title "Huge beard and big weather changes" and I was worried that you were going for the "LaClair" look and you wanted to know how the weather would affect your beard(ice,snow,rain...)!  

I thought he was going to blame the weather on LaClair---say that Ron had shaved or something.

Mick

That is my plan exactly.  This afternoon I'm going to build one and then we'll see what walks by on opening day.

Mickey, If I make my imfamous pork tenderloin(Once or twice during) AND eat a record number of HDFH (at Cloverdale) can I come hunt turkeys with you someday?