First poults of the season

[Sumpnneedskillin]

Saw my first batch of poults this season yesterday.  Found two hens and a jake.  When I came around the corner the poults were all huddled under one hen.  As I slowed the started running and then flew off the shoulder I always amazes me to watch them fly.

Now for the bad news.  A couple of minutes later I ran across a batch of about 6-9 hens and not a poult.  Today while we were out ran across another big batch of hens (about 7 mi as the crow flies from the other set) and none of them had poults either.

[Machias]

I've seen 7 hens in the past week, not a single chick.   

[BOWHUNTER45]

I've seen 7 hens in the past week, not a single chick.   

huh ,, thats not good ... to much rain and being cold so long did not help matters !!

[CedarPants]

Finally!  Saw a hen Saturday in 113 with 6 poults, then another yesterday with 9.  All very small poults, not much bigger than maybe a really large baking potato

[Machias]

Cool, maybe they will all start showing up now, must have been the 2nd or even 3rd hatch.

[CedarPants]

That's what I'm thinking.  I've never seen poults that small this late into the year.  I know up around Springdale where I have property we were seeing poults in mid to late May, but they all seemed to have vanished by early June

[Heartsblood]

We saw a nice flock of about 6-8 hens with perhaps 8-10 poults this weekend in Okanogan county. Just across the creek from them were two gobblers in a tree. Unfortunately (for me anyweys....heh...) these birds were not in the area I was scouting for my fall turkey tag. Still, always very cool to see birds and know they are in a general area. The poults were about the size of decent sized blue grouse. Maybe a tad smaller than that.

[buglebuster]

 Yesterday afternoon I saw 3 hens and about 20 poults in yakima county    made my day!