Frank Schley's American Partridge And Pheasant Shooting
Frank Schley's American Partridge And Pheasant Shooting
Frank Schley
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The snow covers up their hiding places, and changes the appearance of their haunts, and they, get confounded, and do not know where to go. They, however, all keep to- gether, and run over its surface, and are generally very wild, and they will but seldom allow a dog to get close enough to point them, but will fly and alight, and com- mence running again, before the dog gets up to them. Whenever you come across covies on the snow, that are disposed to act in this way, the only plan to pursue, to... be • successful, is to call the dog in, and keep him behind you, and follow them up. On coming up to the covey, if they rise, fire into it, and scatter the birds. If they fly to a hill or mountain side with a southern exposure, where the snow is soft, or to a broken hillside where there are pro- Digitized by VjOOQIC MIGRATION — WANDERING BIRDS. 79 jecting rocks, where the ground is bare, or to the edge of a streamlet bank, where there are patches of bare ground, then you may follow them up, and you may have pretty good sport with them, because here, ten to one, they will lie for the dog to point them ; but should they fly and alight where the snow is hard, it is only time lost to follow after them to have sport, and you may as well credit yourself with an endless tramping, and give them up.
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