I think have an answer

[drobertsinMaryland]

Everytime I have been out this year the birds have not roosted along the hillside of the property I hunt. Which is unusal since they would roost the four year prior to this season. I looked in the field they normally fly down in across the creek and no winter wheat had been planted. Its nothing but mud from all the rain we have had this year. I have heard that turkeys dont like to visit bare fields and I'm starting to think that is true. Could it be because the mud gets clumped on there talons/feet? 

[upstatehunter]

Not sure, have seen them in freshly plowed gardens foraging for bugs and worms and things...Don't think the mud bothers them that much. More likely that they can't run very fast in it or get up in the air as easily. More likely that there is a better food source somewhere else.

[drobertsinMaryland]

More likely that there is a better food source somewhere else.

That too.

[WhiteTail Madness]

I've actually been having better luck this year in strait dirt fields...  In fact where I deer hunt and where all my food plots are planted, I make sure to get them plowed up a day or 2 before season opens b/c they like to pick around for worms in the dirt.  But they still need food, so yes, they probably have a better food source elsewhere.

[Chucker]

I see birds at least once a week in a muddy cornfield from last year.  Can't imagine much pickin's, but they're there...