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Creek Bends: Cutting, spraying, burning and pleasant surprises

Creek Bends: Cutting, spraying, burning and pleasant surprises

Just when habitat work feels fruitless, along comes some encouragement

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Kelly J Bostian
May 18, 2025
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A wild turkey nest holds 16 eggs at Snake Creek. Photo by Kelly Bostian/KJBOutdoors

Time was, I thought nothing could rattle the nerves knees to ears like a cock rooster or covey of quail busting from brush at your feet.

They’ve got nothing on a wild turkey.

It’s only happened to me twice. Both times, it was a hen busting out of the brush, behind me, as I …

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