‘The Turkey Whisperer’ shows hunting this bird is about patience

Hunters can be thankful the spread of wild turkeys across most of Oregon has led to some of the most liberal hunting seasons in the nation.

We’re allowed up to three toms in the spring and one or two more turkeys of either sex in much of the state during the fall, with added bonuses in parts of eastern Oregon and on private land in numerous Willamette Valley counties.

So, with turkeys’ penchant to gather in large flocks in the fall and a tag allowing the harvest of any bird, one might think it would be relatively simple to put something on the table Thursday that didn’t grow a pop-up button.

One would be wrong – or at least this one usually is.

Drawing a sex-crazed male to a decoy in the spring isn’t all that easy, but when he and the hens form large flocks in the fall, two dozen eagl