Brood Flock

One of the things about having trail cameras keeping watch on the comings and goings of the local critters is that you can pick-up on patterns of behavior.

This is called patterning and it is a technique that hunters will use to plan their ambush of a turkey or a deer that has settled-into a certain pattern of location and/or time of movement.

I've had a bit of fun patterning a local brood flock of wild turkeys going all the way back to when they were tiny poults, to chicken-size poults and to now when they are just about adult-size birds. 

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They really do enjoy this particular location to hang out. 

While the grasshoppers are all gone for the season this remains an ideal location to loaf in the sun and relax.

Funny thing is that when they show-up they hang around for almost an hour.  Sometimes less.

Mama hen and her brood know a good thing when they find it.








And I feel privileged to have patterned their movements.  Stay-tuned to see if it persists into the winter with the cold winds and snow blows or if these birds will seek shelter in the thicker pines and spruces...