My younger Daughter and I were up at the cabin Mon + Tue. Monday was a beautiful day, but it rained all night and all day Tue, so we spiffed up the cabin! Cleaned, organized, and hung antlers.
We heard some turkeys on Mon, and I put my Daughter on stand and circled around. It was between us, but we never saw it, and she said another was also calling on the far side of her. We also saw an Osprey, a Deer (as soon as we came down from the Mtn) and 2 Otters on the edge or Rte 17 making their way into the river. It has been years since I've seen Otters, and it was way up in the Adirondacks last time.
I've never been a trophy hunter, always just a meat hunter, and mostly hunt in the woods, which is far less productive than hunting the farms, but I like to hunt so over the years I've collected some antlers (and have memories of lots of others that I did not get). The first 3 on the left were all taken with the rifle on my property, the next row is MZ, then Cross Bow, then Regular Bow. Most of the non rifle hunting was done down here in Putnam County NY. More deer down here, but less of a challenge, and you can't use Rifle!
We also made a crude shooting bench and bench seat to use as a stand on a 6' high piece of bluestone that is slightly up hill from a good deer area. We have a few newer/younger hunters who will be a lot steadier off the bench and not in a tree, and can have a "supervisor" with them.
Brought my camper (travel trailer) home last Thursday, a day before this 
70 miles and some 12% grades, glad it’s home.
