. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . at Birdsall, near North Grimston, six miles of was not a pipe Decoy. It was near Birdsall House, theseat of Lord Middleton, to whom the estate belongs, and whoinformed Sir R. Payne-Gallwey it was a trap or cage Decoy, andthat it has long since been discontinued, and is now silted up. CoATHAM, NEAR Redcar.—On the Kirkleatham estate, nowowned by Mr. G. H. T. Newcomen, a Decoy was constructed DECOYS. 447 on Coatham Marshes in 1840, by the then owner, Mr. The area of ground enclo
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . at Birdsall, near North Grimston, six miles of was not a pipe Decoy. It was near Birdsall House, theseat of Lord Middleton, to whom the estate belongs, and whoinformed Sir R. Payne-Gallwey it was a trap or cage Decoy, andthat it has long since been discontinued, and is now silted up. CoATHAM, NEAR Redcar.—On the Kirkleatham estate, nowowned by Mr. G. H. T. Newcomen, a Decoy was constructed DECOYS. 447 on Coatham Marshes in 1840, by the then owner, Mr. The area of ground enclosed was about threeacres, with a pool of two acres, through which a stell or* fleet runs, carrying surface water to the Teesmouth,being occasionally increased when the Marsh was position of the Decoy is on the south of the railwaynear Tod Point, about 300 yards distant from, and oppositeto, the Marsh Farm at the west end of the village of were originally four pipes, which, however, were reducedto three, but only two were in regular use, each about fifty. yards in length ; that on the north side was the largest andbest. For twenty-five years the Decoy was very productive,and many kinds of fowl were captured, including Sheld-Duck,Shoveler, Pintail, Mallard, Wigeon, Teal, Pochard, occasionallya Scaup, and once, in 1850, a Ferruginous Duck. On the occa-sion nearly five hundred Ducks were enclosed in the net, whichbroke with their weight and all escaped but a hundred birds.* * The information concerning this Decoy is compiled from recollec-tions of old residents of Coatham, who assisted the Decoyman, Faith ;for the particulars of plans and measurements I am indebted to thelate R. Lofthouse of Middlesbrough, who surveyed the site in 1887. 448 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. The Redcar fishermen and professional fowlers at thatperiod were in the habit of stationing themselves on thesand-hills between the marshes and the sea to await the Ducksas they flew to and fr
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