. Outing. s again. Laboriously enough, buttrue to custom, they rose almost straightup to the tops of the trees and made ofrinto the swamp. Such experiences il-lustrate the barbarity of summer wood-cock shooting, now, fortunately, largelya thing of the past. The nest of the woodcock is harderto find than either of the it is usually by mere accidentthat a nest is discovered, so closely doest)ie bird sit and so wonderfully does she that there was a wToodcock on its nest inplain sight, on open ground in an alderswamp, it was a long time before I wasable, unaided further, to make h
. Outing. s again. Laboriously enough, buttrue to custom, they rose almost straightup to the tops of the trees and made ofrinto the swamp. Such experiences il-lustrate the barbarity of summer wood-cock shooting, now, fortunately, largelya thing of the past. The nest of the woodcock is harderto find than either of the it is usually by mere accidentthat a nest is discovered, so closely doest)ie bird sit and so wonderfully does she that there was a wToodcock on its nest inplain sight, on open ground in an alderswamp, it was a long time before I wasable, unaided further, to make her found, no bird was easier tophotograph on the nest. It seemed likephotographing a rock. No matter howthe wind blew, there she sat perfectlymotionless. All I had to do was to setup the camera and get busy. Finally Isat down right beside her, watched her,even stroked her. I wish that I hadthought to try to feed her with wormsby hand, though perhaps she would nothave been willing to make a A YOUNG PINTAIL DUCK ENJOYING A SIESTA AMONG THE REEDS. But, once flushed, she was very shyabout returning. Several times I have kept woodcockin captivity and found that they makedocile and interesting pets. They borefor worms placed in a pan of earth, andsometimes will even take them from thehand. As for their appetite, it is some-thing prodigious. I have elsewherewritten, the substance of which I mayventure to repeat, that one of these petswhose food I weighed, and whichweighed six ounces itself, was accustomeddaily to stow away from eight to twelveounces of earthworms, averaging aboutten. It is as though a man weighingone hundred and fifty pounds should eatupwards of three hundred pounds of beefper day! The Wilsons snipe, often known asEnglish or jacksnipe, is inaccessible inthe nesting time to the majority, as itmigrates well to the North. Yet, in-asmuch as it frequents the open meadowswhere the light is good, I think it couldhe photographed in flight. On a warm,bright d
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