What's that sound?

[H2only]

I was out at the pond tonight and heard a strange bird. First off the pond is surrounded by heavy woods with farm fields around the woods. The nearest farm is maybe 3/4 mile away, and the pond is a good 1/4 from a low maintenence road.
The sound was coming from 3 completely different areas of the woods maybe 20 yards from the water, but it was like a raspy rooster cluck but longer, they would "cluck" 3 or 4 times and then flap their wings, like beating their chest or something, the flapping was a low very strong sound.
Were these turkeys possibly? I stood and watched each time but could not see anything moving.

[H2only]

ok, after a little research, I think I found the sound:

http://www.nwtf.org/audio/Yelp_Hen.mp3

only it was followed with the wing beating. This is good news for me, I have permission to hunt on this land, and would be the only one out there with permission. I also see a number of nice deer out there nearly every time I go.

[Shorty]

Nighthawks will make some interesting sounds around a pond too.

[H2only]

pretty sure it was a "big" bird, from the volume of the sound and the beating of the wings, was for sure a bigger wing movement.

[CanoeGuru]

Your audio sure sounds like a turkey to me!

[H2only]

Originally Posted by CanoeGuru

Your audio sure sounds like a turkey to me!

thats cause the audio is a turkey, the sound i heard was similar to that but not exactly the same

[CanoeGuru]

Originally Posted by H2only

thats cause the audio is a turkey, the sound i heard was similar to that but not exactly the same

So it was exactly the same, only different? Sorry. Couldn't resist.