Originally Posted by CNC
From what I’ve read hawks nest in April/May and feed chicks through June……I’m gonna say that it’s probably not just coincidental that the peak of natural lighting strike fire would occur back in the day during May/June….If hawks are busy catching the scattered rodents in the freshly burned area then they arent targeting poults in the brooding cover……just saying.


The hawks eating turkey poults are NOT the same ones eating rats, etc. I watched several Coopers nests for months from a blind as well as analyzed remains after fledging and coopers eat birds, all the time, pretty much only...

Originally Posted by CNC
The more I’ve thought it out I think I may be on something


fixed it for you

Last edited by gobbler; 04/15/24 07:50 PM.

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