Monday, January 28, 2008
Strange Clucking
I've looked at a lot of info on turkey hunting since I started. One of the first interests I had was what an actual wild turkey sounded like. I heard guys like Ray Eye the world famous turkey caller doing his thing and recordings of wild turkeys. Most of the clucking I heard sounded kind of like a hollow truncated yelp. The first few years while learning to hunt I didn't hear a lot of turkeys, because the most inter-action I had was watching them run away while we drove around on logging roads. Since we have found the new honey hole, I have heard and seen a lot more turkeys that were unaware of my presence. I was really surprised when I heard them cluck. At first I thought the sound must be the putt sound since the hens that were making it when I first heard it were flying out of their trees to get out of Dodge, because I had just planted myself in their territory. Then some hens showed up later who weren't away of me and they were popping along nonchalently. The sound they were making sounded like the pop from the song "Lollipop". The part where the song goes "Lollipop (POP) Ba dum dum dum" at the end of the chorus like a cork gun popping. I've never heard this online and never have the guys in the turkey calling contest used this call that I've heard. Anyway, I think that there may be local dialects for turkeys not as much for the mating calls like gobbling and yelping, but maybe for calls like clucking an purring they can differ from flock to flock. If anyone else has experienced different turkey "dialects" leave me a comment so I know I'm not crazy.
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