Welcome to Rumbel Strip, Vermont. Today I bring you Hot Bird. It's a very, very short show in

celebration of the season of turkeys and catching them and eating them. But first I wanted to

apologize for any confusion on the last show. The last show is called Our

School for about 24 hours. The wrong tape was in the feed, so if you subscribe to the podcast, you might

have found yourself listening to an unedited interview instead of the final show.

So anyway, it's fixed and you can find both the show and the

unedited interview on my website and I apologize for any confusion.

Without further ado here is Hotbird featuring Barry Forbes of Middlebury Vermont. You work each bird as an individual. Usually when I'm calling I'll give you

you help there, you clocks he'll gobble. If I call and he's waiting a half minute before he gobbles back.

Okay, that's telling me that, yeah, he's probably going to come, but he's taking this time.

If I call and he immediately cuts me off and come back with a single

double or a triple gobble, I'm finding me a place to set. What he's telling me is, he is a

hot bird and he's looking for a hen and he's found one and he's on his way.

And the more he gobbles the harder he is.

So, yeah, you're basically trying to tell him that you're the hottest best-looking hand in the world.

And all he's got to do is come over to meet you, because you're ready and willing.

If you can convey that point to him, you're all set.

He's going to come.

And last, he's already got three hands with him that are telling him the same thing.

At which point he may come, may not. Now and then I'll work the hens with the idea of if I can

draw one of the he's quite apt to follow. I'll still stay a hand, but I will mimic her sometimes.

She'll yell at me, and I'll come right back with the same thing she just said.

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