Rod and gun . ocks we took a picture of five ex-cited drakes closely persuing a mo-destly clad brown duck—she did notchoose her mate while we watchedbut each and all of them dipped underthe moment she dived or took to wingthe instant of her flight, closely fol- 340 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA lowing her every movement. Manya time she drove off her too ardentlovers, but soon she would selectone and then she and her new matewould turn on the four discardedones and drive them off. They inturn would seek the female with leastattendant lovers and the old be again repeated. Later in the year,
Rod and gun . ocks we took a picture of five ex-cited drakes closely persuing a mo-destly clad brown duck—she did notchoose her mate while we watchedbut each and all of them dipped underthe moment she dived or took to wingthe instant of her flight, closely fol- 340 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA lowing her every movement. Manya time she drove off her too ardentlovers, but soon she would selectone and then she and her new matewould turn on the four discardedones and drive them off. They inturn would seek the female with leastattendant lovers and the old be again repeated. Later in the year, when the gunhad a little replaced the camera, wetook toll of the passing bluebills asthey circled to our decoys, and to trythe speed of my new camera—and myown speed as well—I pictured a blue-bill I had shot ere it reached thewater. Duck Chatter Being Some Practical Advice, Gained From Been-there Exper-ience on Marsh and in Blind, Together With a FewReminiscences of Days Gone By S. E. Sangster (). THERE are somewhere about 20true varieties of the duck specieseither breeding in Ontario or visit-ing the watersof that Provinceenroutesouth on their autumn varj locally in hunting andshooting the same species, while theopen water work is vastly different inmany of its features from the marshprogram. Let us first state, as an admittedaxiom, that there are two distinctfeatures in the duck t(uestion, in sofar as the sjiortsman is is, first, duck hiinling and thenfollows duck shouting; needless topoint out, the first factor is essential before any large degree of success inthe shooting can result. In short, ifone expects to kill a big limit of birds,he must first—at this day of thous-ands of guns afield and scatteredbirds, (yearly showing thinnedranks)—learn from experience theway to hunt duck. We were camped on a twistingstream that stretched past our tentand wound on out through the wav-ing rice to the lake, a mile away. Averitable wate
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