. Our wild fowl and waders . ourseof flight to and from the lake. Many ducks are shot inthis way, but woe to the person caught firing a gun nearthe home pond. When away from home the birds are aswild as other wild ducks and fail to recognize any mem-bers of the Gray family, while at home they follow theboys around the barnyard, squawking for food like somany tame ducks. This is the greatest sight I have ever witnessed andone that I could not believe existed until I had seen it is worth traveling many miles to see. The following accounts of wild ducks in Florida andelsewhere, with
. Our wild fowl and waders . ourseof flight to and from the lake. Many ducks are shot inthis way, but woe to the person caught firing a gun nearthe home pond. When away from home the birds are aswild as other wild ducks and fail to recognize any mem-bers of the Gray family, while at home they follow theboys around the barnyard, squawking for food like somany tame ducks. This is the greatest sight I have ever witnessed andone that I could not believe existed until I had seen it is worth traveling many miles to see. The following accounts of wild ducks in Florida andelsewhere, with the remarkable picture of ducks at LakeWorth, which was sent to me by Dr. Dutcher, the dis-tinguished President of the National Association ofAudubon Societies, also illustrates this peculiarity ofwild ducks. The picture was published by the Association in an >educational leaflet and Mr. Forbush, who wrote it, says:At Titusville, Florida, where no shooting is allowednear the hotel or wharves, the wild ducks from the river. D OB Q Q YOUNG DUCKS ON THE POND 69 become so tame that they swimabout among the boatslike domesticated fowl and will even come out on thelawn near the hotel. These same ducks when out on theriver beyond the dead line are as wild as the wildest. At Lake Worth, Florida, the same conditions prevail,and the scaup ducks swimming in the lake become soconfiding that they may be fed from the hand. In theponds of the Middlesex Fells reservation, near Boston,Massachusetts, where gunning is prohibited, the blackducks have greatly increased, and some now nest in thevicinity of Boston. When the State of New York first prohibited Springshooting, breeding black ducks were rare on FishersIsland. A few years later there was-good shooting onthe island each Fall because of the ducks that werereared there. Dr. Shaw, who was rearing wild ducksnear New Bedford, Massachusetts, asked the farmersnear his place to post their land and prevent shooting asa means of protecting his du
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