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Coming off a long, hard winter, with the honey bee population already suffering huge losses, this freaking rain is making beekeeping life miserable. Urghh! The efforts I put into getting my 4 hives through winter beat the odds, and resulted in all 4 making it in great shape. But the success has had its drawbacks. I am now feeding a greatly expanding population of bees because they cannot fly out in the rain and cold to forage for themselves. It also keeps virgin queens from being able to complete their mating flights. There is so much more to beekeeping than sticking a box of bees in the backyard and sitting back and enjoy seeing them out there. With that said, as strange as it may sound, even with the expense, work, stress, and worry, I’m glad I got into this. If I have any regret, it would bee (pun intended) I didn’t start many years ago.

Can't see picts? You get him?

Hmmmmm .... I thought we were talking about Politicians here ! LOL

Years ago, when town dumps were common I would hunt rats on them, night hunting was always the best. Once it got dark out they would be out in good numbers crawling around through the garbage. I would use my car's headlights to spot and pick them off. Al

Hit the sun roof by mistake.

Snowed in!

I overslept my alarm clock this am, got in my pa bling at 6:05, immediately heard a gobble, they were in the woods avoiding the field. Dead at 6:15 lol. Had another come in right after.

This guy has been hanging around my food plot all week. Shows up at all different times. I'll hunt him Sunday and Monday. This is a hen in second picture correct?

Looks like The Boys are sticking together ..

I believe the same. I also think the food sources are more plentiful during a good rain, out in the open. Especially in open areas on sod where worms and grubs come to the surface. A smorgasbord of good eating. In late July through September, the turkey walk my second cutting hay fields in search of grasshoppers which are plentiful.

Some good birds on the farm. Although there are 2 less today.

This is only..turkey that has shown up on cams this spring, far and few between at my sisters in 9a.

When it rains hard around here it is a pretty good bet the local Turkeys will be coming out of the woods and heading into more open areas. I believe they feel the rain and wind in the woods makes for conditions that take away to some extent their keen senses, I think they feel safer in open areas where they have good vision of their surroundings. I have these guys patterned pretty well. Bottom line, if I still hunted Turkeys I would be hunting the edges of woods on rainy days. Al