The morning hunts for Terry and I had plenty of critter activity but the hogs seemed to be sleeping in or off playing some place else.
We would get to our stands in the morning about 45 minutes before light. My favorite time of day in a stand is when the woods are waking up.
At the hint of first light the birds would start to chirp. Then the owls started hooting, the cranes started sqwauking, the crows cawing. And yes an occasional gobble gobble from an Osceola long beard. My first morning on stand I had a nice longbeard just a few yards from my stand and he gobbled when the feeded went off. I nearly jumped out of my skin.