. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 166 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Everybody knows the Screech Owl. He lives in the trees of the Orchard, and sometimes is very noisy. Sometimes he roosts in the cedar trees, and I find on the gfround, pellets that are composed for the most part of mouse fur and bones. But I have found them to consist of feathers that look suspiciously like the English Sparrow wears. Every man that is fond of shooting, notes the approach of fall and winter with evident satisfaction. He pictures to himself long V-shaped columns of slowly moving noisy-mouthed wild geese, and
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 166 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Everybody knows the Screech Owl. He lives in the trees of the Orchard, and sometimes is very noisy. Sometimes he roosts in the cedar trees, and I find on the gfround, pellets that are composed for the most part of mouse fur and bones. But I have found them to consist of feathers that look suspiciously like the English Sparrow wears. Every man that is fond of shooting, notes the approach of fall and winter with evident satisfaction. He pictures to himself long V-shaped columns of slowly moving noisy-mouthed wild geese, and swift, silent flocks of wild ducks. Yesterday; I saw in a shute far out in the river and surrounded by ice a number of Canada Geese. They are, since the extermination of the wild Turkey, king of our game birds. And like the Turkey they too-might have been exterminated, were it not for their unceasing vigilance. It is indeed a lucky gunner that brings one of them to earth. Those who have hunted them tell me that at night, when a flock has settled down on a sandbar a number of pickets are stationed out so they can observe the approach of any enemy, in time to warn the sleeping flock. It is almost impossible to approach them, even on the darkest night. The method usually employed in hunting them is as follows: The hunter, on locating a flock, pulls his boat far around them till he is above them so the current will carry his boat down on them. He lies down in the boat, trusting to the curient to do its work, and never showing himself above the rim of the boat. If he is fortunate enough to float down among them, unsuspected, he will probably get one or two. Two sixteen year old boys of my acquaint- ance secured a couple in this way recently, but since then I have seen the strategy fail. Before the boat had floated within three hundred yards of the birds they showed their suspicion by craning their necks, and a moment later all took wing and were off. Wild ducks are another favorite
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