I was on my way to buy motor oil and a filter Sunday morning and as I was passing the former TXU plant, I was looking at the field and I see what I thought was a turkey… I made a u-turn to check it out and I stop on beltline to check it out… Sure enough, it's a nice lookin gobbler with a good beard… I called at it with my mouth, but I couldn’t hear him respond, but the way he was looking, I know he heard me…

Coppell police pull up behind me, I pull away - praying he didn’t pull me over. When we get to the light, I told him there were turkeys in that field… I go home and get the box call. I go back to the power plant… One of the birds is still out there so I drove up the power plant entrance road, turn around and park in front of the bird, kill the engine, and start calling it with the box call. It was responding to it, when the same cop pulls up behind me - he'd driven back to the plant to find the bird - LOL.

Turns out he was an avid turkey hunter… He gets out with binoculars and says "do you see the bird?" The bird had layed down, I could only see the top if it's head at about 150 yards… Another Coppell police car pulls up - they both get out and say "where's the bird?" two minutes later, those cop's superviser pulls up and says "what's going on? I heard you tell these two to come over, and I wanted to see what was going on…" LOL!!

So now there are 3 police car, 4 cops and me standing there watching the bird while I called it. One of them was snapping pictures…

After they all left, I sat in the back of the truck calling it and I got it to come up to the chain link fence… At one point I had him within shooting distance… I tried to walk up on him, and when he saw me, bolted…

It was still pretty fun just to get the calling practice and to see such a nice looking bird in the middle of the city.

Crappy cel phone pic will be coming up shortly... When you see it, there is a speck in the middle of the pic - that was the turkey...

TxP

j/k

Laugh and doubt all you want, but it really was out there...

I wish I'd had a better camera/picture...

I've seen them in Lewisville, Grapevine and Argyle. Congrats

I believe you. I have seen turkey in the area several times. Just don't believe he was in shotgun range with you being the one who was doing the calling!

this is cool. oh and by the way i have seen an el bino turkey in weatherford.

Is the el bino a relative to the chupa? LMAO!!

El Bino? Is that one of those Mexican wrestlers?

I've seen turkeys in that area several times and even near the intersection of beltline and MacArthur

Yep - I was just slightly west of there - maybe 1-2 miles west...

Doesn't it seem that you always seem to run into animals you hunt when you cant kill em?

I pulled off the road on whites chappel in southlake and played with this cutie... she wasn't scared of us at all...



A hen on the side of the road and she was just hanging out...

Awww from what i hear you cant hit em when they ARE in season!!!!!!JUST KIDDING!

LOL! Thanks Hal!

If yesterday wasn't enough of a teaser... Look at how close we got to that same bird this morning!

I hope she's not lost or finds her family!

I saw one in Lewisville the other day

I see them in Flower Mound fairly regularly, as well as deer. It's amazing at how they can adapt to civilization.

WE HAD ONE IN CRANDALL BUT SOME [censored] KILLED IT. WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SEE TURKEY IN TOWN BUT THERE IS ALWAYS SOME DUMB [censored] WHO CAN'T SEEM TO LET IT GO...

in corinth there is several groups of turkeys on swisher rd... and a few patches of deer 4-8 in each bunch.

It is neat to watch them and like you said they dont seem to worried about the cars wizzing by.

I have seen those. What do you think about the exotics in the high fence at the water ski lake. I found a shed from an 8pt. on hickory creek this year while fishing. That was a surprise.

nope it is that lake with the jump ramps off of Swisher where all the coots live.

the exotics are hard to see because there is no place to pull off the road... you could possibly pull into the guys driveway.... On swisher rd in Corinth... 2 miles west of I35. You will see the high fence on the south side.

I live another mile down swisher and have seen 3 nice bucks over the last couple years. and several groups of turkeys.
I think it was last year when we had the snow... I drove by where the sno cone stand is and saw a few deer in the field.
I continued east to the next little driveway for that field and parked, I walked into that clump of thick oaks hopefully to watch the deer and snap some pics... but I kid you knot there were probably 7 or 8 deer bedded down in the woods that I was trying to walk thru needless to say they bolted... still cool for a city boy