Hi Felicia,
 I was standing beside my shop this morning, around 10 AM, when I  heard 
one or more Wild Turkey gobbling from the woods beyond the field behind  us. 
I've often thought it looked like good turkey habitat, and it remains on my  
"short-list" of birds I could likely expect here, hence my question 
regarding  the hunting season. Within about 45 minutes I began hearing gun shots 
from the  same direction, and just wondered whether I was hearing turkeys or 
hunters  calling turkeys. My wife looked up the seasons online, and it seems 
the season  doesn't start till tomorrow for youth, then on the 19th again. So 
maybe I was  hearing real turkeys after all? But then again, I hear gun 
shots a lot here,  even when I don't think there is any hunting season 
underway. It would be yard  bird  #112.
 
Also saw some Common Loons passing over as well as a flock of 6 cormorants, 
 and my first Brown Thrasher in the yard this season.
 
Rick Sussman
Woodbine (Carroll County) MD
 
 
In a message dated 4/16/2009 8:32:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

The WILD  TURKEY started calling from the Patapsco Valley SP woods  this
morning.

They should continue calling for about a month (rarely  seen).

Felicia  Lovelett


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