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Hear a turkey gobbling as I let the dogs out this morning. He must know he's safe for a while again!

I'm pretty sure someone shot on my land out behind my house...... 3 shoots at 5:50 this morning. Probably the same jerk that poached one off me last year. These guys are lucky I have too much work to do to try to chase them down.

Just heard three shots across the road from my house. Yesterday morning there were a couple trucks parked along the road over there.

Saw a big mangey coyote cross the neighbors cornfield and come into my woods. Packed it in for the day, too much to do.

Not much going on here. I got out a little late behind my house. So far only heard one gobble quite a ways off across the road from me.

I'm thinking I should have stayed in bed. All quiet here and wet.

Most importantly..... How close to the dirt track. Lots of entertainment value there on a Saturday night!

Same here, first peepers this morning.

A friend of mine hit a coyote last night and couldn't find it. He jokingly asked me if I knew anyone with a tracking dog, I told him my dog might be able to. He said ok let's try it if you have time. I went and grabbed my dog at lunch time. When I got to the spot and let my dog out my buddy said "what kind of dog is that?" I told him it was a drahthaar and he asked what the heck that was. I told him what they are and what they are supposed to do. About 15 minutes later he told me I was going to be the first call on any more tracking. He's six and I've never had him on a blood trail but he did awesome.

Another one! Three 3 point sides in the last four days.

My son with the one from today and the one from a couple days ago.

I'm on a roll! First one I've found on this place since I moved in 6 years ago. Wasn't even looking for it.

Not a very big one, but I am happy about finding it. I haven't found any in a few years. I'm hoping to get back out there after the snow is gone.

I consider myself a decent caller. Not as good as I used to be though. Back in the early 2000's I had some great and big places to hunt and no kids and not much job responsibilities so I hunted a lot in NY and PA and got to mess around calling to a bunch of birds. Now a day's between kids and my job I don't have much time to go even though I have Tom's gobbling right out my back door.

My parents started that way. Go for a few weeks. That turned into a few months and buying a place. Now they go for 6 months plus a day to be considered residents and are on their fourth place they have owned. Each being a little bigger and nicer. My mother was telling me the place they are in now is worth 50-70k more now than when they bought it about 5 years ago. My father has his garage full of his old man toys, a Corvette, a motorcycle and a bombardier three wheeler, plus a kayak and regular pedal bikes. They love it down there.