PEAR TREE ORCHARD TURKEY
It doesn't matter whether it's spring or fall, Merriam or Eastern or Rio Grande or Osceola, turkeys are tough to hunt. Their eyes are so keen. If you can see them without binoculars, they can easily pick you out of the edge of the timber unless you act like a tree. Stand so still until you feel like you've grown leaves. Unless your clothes have been treated with non-UVA detergent, a turkey's vision can still pick you out of the timber... Yes, from that distance, their wary eyes are as good as your 'binocs' and closely match a raptor's vision in relation to picking up movement several hundred yards away, as across a 100 acre corn field or from their roost above that same field. Turkeys also are not color blind, hence the reference for the necessity to wash your huntin’ duds in special hunting laundry soap that is formulated to minimize the intense colors of fabrics and human odor. "The retinas of turkeys have seven dif