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The Wild Life, with Mark Taylor

They're strutting and gobbling

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A buddy in Bedford County sent me this shot of a couple big boys showing off in the field behind his house. Think he's looking forward to opening day?

I'm getting more reports of gobbling and strutting so it's really building.

So, who plans to go out Saturday for the youth day? I'm sure there are other dads who will be out there with 6-year-olds, but mine are nowhere near ready to shoot a shotgun yet. And the other kids I know who would like to hunt have dads, uncles or grandfathers who hunt. But I plan to ask around to see if I can find a kid who wants to go but otherwise wouldn't get to go.

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  1. While I was out in the yard on Sunday, I heard some turkeys gobbling back in the woods somewhere. Today, as I was driving to work, I saw three very nice-looking turkeys strutting across a neighbor's field. This was near Fincastle.

    Comment by Dwayne Yancey — April 1, 2008 @ 9:36 am

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Mark Taylor.

While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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