Does everyone agree that we are in a warming trend that is likely causing the turkeys to start breeding earlier and that change in the game is a factor at play to consider??

Just thinking more about the different potential impacts of fire during the nesting process………It would seem that turkeys and their breeding process heavily revolves around them being on a consistent pattern with the least amount of disturbance to the routine/pattern for them to be successful. How does fire during the nesting season impact their patterns not just from a nesting perspective but also from drawing turkeys off their current routine to concentrate on the new fresh burns???.....If holding things stable during breeding is the name of the game for success then constantly shuffling the turkeys around all over the chessboard (hens and gobblers) and altering their daily routines during breeding by dropping fire here today…..there two days from now…… over yonder next week….that is not optimal. Alter the game board outside of the breeding/nesting time period and see if it makes a difference....again considering that it is likely happening earlier now.

Also, on this note……I was thinking more about the smaller amount of natural fire that Gobbler commented on that would have occurred in the spring…..From the lighting strike stuff we talked about it would seem like that fire was more of a late spring fire….Wasnt it late April and May for our highest spring probability??.....If hens sit on their nests for about 28 days then these lightening storms would line up fairly closely to hatching wouldn’t they???.....

The reason I bring this up is because I’ve noticed….and I’m sure others have too…..that when I go out and mow down a bunch of the understory around my field during that time of year I attract hawks like a magnet…..Why?.......Because I’ve stirred up and scattered a chitload of field mice and given them a bunch of easy targets to go after…….What if Mother Nature is purposely scattering a bunch of field mice in late spring with low intensity fire to give the tiny poults some cover??......Meaning, are there 50 little poults out there as targets for the hawks during this time period…..OR…. are there 50 little poults in amongst 5,000 scattered rat targets of similar size? Sorta like how trapping gives them a chance to get through the critical time period of nesting……the late spring fires may help them get through the critical early bird stage by temporarily overwhelming the hawks with targets.