. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . ound my firstMallards was on a lit-tle hummock, ina tu ss oc k ofgrass, a littleway out in thewater where thelake shore was marshy, the big bird springingforth with a bound into the air when I was per-haps fifteen yards away. The nest was quite sub-stantial and well lined, and held ten yellowish drabeggs, slightly tinged with green. The other nestwas on an island in front of our camp, pl
. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . ound my firstMallards was on a lit-tle hummock, ina tu ss oc k ofgrass, a littleway out in thewater where thelake shore was marshy, the big bird springingforth with a bound into the air when I was per-haps fifteen yards away. The nest was quite sub-stantial and well lined, and held ten yellowish drabeggs, slightly tinged with green. The other nestwas on an island in front of our camp, placed ina thicket of trees and bushes. The first time theDuck flushed I could hardly get a glimpse of her,so I came again later in the day, and, approachingcarefully, easily identified the nine eggs, that, likethe others, were quite fresh. A few days later we drove on, still eastward,over a most desolate, mainly uninhabited prairie,to Rush Lake, which I have already one part of its shore a fire had burned over alarge tract of grass and rushes, and I saw quite anumber of nests of scorched Ducks eggs exposedto view. I shall remember this great prairie lake 182 Wild-Fowl of Wild-Fowi. as the place where I found two Ducks nests newto me. After going over the burnt tract I pulledup the tops of my boots and waded along theshore, some rods out, among clumps of long went a brownish Duck, with grey wings,from a tussock a little beyond me,— a Redhead, Isaw at once. There was a very large basket-nestof dry rushes,lined with dovsn,and a no less size-able assortmentof eggs, fifteenof them I finallycounted. Eachegg, too , waslarge, n earlywhite, with afaint greenishtinge and a shell so smooth and hard as to remindone of a billiard ball. Altogether it was a large andinteresting discovery. At this point I waded ashore and had no soonerset foot on dry land than a Blue-winged Teal flushedfrom the prairie grass, and I found her eight fresheggs in a nest of grass and down
Size: 1940px × 1288px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1902
