. Our feathered game; a handbook of the North American game birds . ace and it was by no means an easy place to returned often to this ground and always met withsome success in the afternoon, but usually found nobirds in the morning. In fact, I shot most of my birdslate in the afternoon, and was convinced that theywere more easily found when the feeding time ap-proached and the birds began to move about. Iwould advise sportsmen when shooting other game inthe vicinity of a likely cock cover, to reserve that forthe afternoon, since I am firmly convinced more birdswill be found then, than
. Our feathered game; a handbook of the North American game birds . ace and it was by no means an easy place to returned often to this ground and always met withsome success in the afternoon, but usually found nobirds in the morning. In fact, I shot most of my birdslate in the afternoon, and was convinced that theywere more easily found when the feeding time ap-proached and the birds began to move about. Iwould advise sportsmen when shooting other game inthe vicinity of a likely cock cover, to reserve that forthe afternoon, since I am firmly convinced more birdswill be found then, than in the morning. I once made a trip especially for woodcock to somesplendid ground south of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Westarted on the opening day (July 4th) and had a spe-cial car and engine at our disposal which moved usfrom one wet woodland to another, and we succeededin making fair bags each day. We would have donebetter had not others been shooting ahead of us out ofseason, as was evidenced by the empty shells whichwere scattered everywhere in the woods. The wild. COCK SHOOTING, LATE IN THE DAY THE WOODCOCK 259 roses and other flowers were in full bloom and theheavy summer foliage cast strong blue shadowsthrough the woods, intensifying by contrast the spotsof vivid green where the sunlight fell. It was veryhot and we returned often to the ice-cooler in the mosquitoes were abundant and industrious. Al-though we had ice we found it difficult to preservethe game. Many of the birds were small, and I wasmore than ever impressed that it was not the seasonfor shooting feathered game. Forester tells of shooting in July with a friend whofired at a woodcock, which fluttered off as thoughwounded. When it was again put up it returned onstrong wings to the place where it was first it, one of the dogs found and caught ayoung cock still unable to fly. What stronger argu-ment could be advanced for prohibiting the summershooting? The date when the young were hatched in
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