. Our wild fowl and waders . they could be liberated whena few weeks old, and they would find most of their foodin the marshes. The vanishing wood-duck, the teal andother fowl could be made to provide excellent shootingby the end of August and long before any migratorybirds arrive from the North. At the time of my visit to the Lake Erie group of clubsI observed that some of the natural enemies of the gamewere abundant. Hawks were often seen in the air, andon one occasion a hawk alighted on the head of a punterwho sat motionless in the grass, the bird mistaking hisold gray hat for a stump, no d
. Our wild fowl and waders . they could be liberated whena few weeks old, and they would find most of their foodin the marshes. The vanishing wood-duck, the teal andother fowl could be made to provide excellent shootingby the end of August and long before any migratorybirds arrive from the North. At the time of my visit to the Lake Erie group of clubsI observed that some of the natural enemies of the gamewere abundant. Hawks were often seen in the air, andon one occasion a hawk alighted on the head of a punterwho sat motionless in the grass, the bird mistaking hisold gray hat for a stump, no doubt. There were manyrattlesnakes on the preserves of the Ottawa and WinousPoint Clubs, and one of them crawled up on a log whereI was seated sketching one day and coiled itself up be-side me. I was somewhat alarmed when I discovered it,but easily killed it. The unfortunate introduction of the carp has destroyedmiles of splendid food—the wild rice—and Mr. Chamber-lain, the Secretary of the Ottawa Club, recently wrote me. BLUEBILL SHOT AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY DALE AMERICAN DUCK CLUBS 99 that they were now feeding tons of grain in the effort toinduce the ducks to remain during the shooting should not be a very difficult matter to wire some ofthe desirable ponds against the carp and to destroy allof those within the protected territory, when the wild ricecould be restored, and soon it would grow as luxuri-antly as it formerly did. There are many duck clubs in the vicinity of Chicagoand Northward at Fox Lake and other desirable whole vast region along the Illinois River in thevicinity of Peoria and Havana is occupied, and there arehundreds of clubs about the marshy lakes of the Westernand North Western States. On the Pacific coast theduck clubs already are numerous in Oregon and Wash-ington and abundant in California from the vicinity ofSacramento South to Los Angeles, where there are lit-erally miles of clubs. There are a few clubs about the great
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