So the doors swung one way into the trap and the bird just tried to dive bomb in the doors?

Burning isn’t always that easy. You are completely at the mercy of the weather and local conditions. Burn practitioners don’t have the luxury of scheduling burns to specific days or even weeks in most cases. You get them done when you can. For a private landowner with the ability to burn themselves, sure. They don’t have as much to do. For someone with 25-30 burns on the schedule for a burn season, no. It gets done when it gets done.


And, timing of burns helps achieve other objectives too. Turkeys are not always the forefront of those decisions. For deer browse and hardwood control, growing season fires are the best. Dormant season fires really don’t accomplish much for wildlife. They reduce fuels. Growing season fires however, promote herbaceous growth and help control unwanted species. I’ve NEVER once seen turkey populations suffer from growing season fires on the landscape, unless it was an uncontrolled intense fire that destroyed everything living over a vast amount of acreage.

Also to add, a lot of burning right now is also occurring in areas that turkeys absolutely will not nest in. I have a burn scheduled that hasn’t seen fire in probably a decade with leaf litter so thick that there’s no understory growth to provide any sort of nesting cover whatsoever. Once you get a tract on the right rotation you also decrease the likelihood of burning up nests- but once again, benefits far outweigh the risks

Also to add, a lot of burning right now is also occurring in areas that turkeys absolutely will not nest in. I have a burn scheduled that hasn’t seen fire in probably a decade with leaf litter so thick that there’s no understory growth to provide any sort of nesting cover whatsoever. Once you get a tract on the right rotation you also decrease the likelihood of burning up nests- but once again, benefits far outweigh the risks