Moorland And Stream With Notes And Prose Idylls On Shooting And Trout Fishing
Moorland And Stream With Notes And Prose Idylls On Shooting And Trout Fishing
W William Barry
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In blustry storm weather, with a strong wind blowing from the sea, when the tide is at its ebb, leaving exposed some miles of shingle, of sand, and of low black rocks, a bag of wild-fowl may be had of the most curious variety. On such days the shore will be covered with screaming gulls, with swarms of sand-pipers, sea-larks, red I 88 WILD-FOWL SHOOTING. shank, grey plover, cormorants, widgeon, seapie, and curlew. If the breeze comes from the north, and is moreover freighted with drifts and gust...s of sleet, so much the better. You may often advance on your prey wrapped in a winding-sheet of powdery hail, and, indeed, the birds get apparently confused in these seasons of exceptional severity, and blunder within range in the most sudden and unexpected manner. Of course you do not fire at gulls, but sea-lark are not to be despised in a crust cover containing a few slices of fresh beef, a sprig of borage, some eggs, and a dash of white-wine sauce. The curlew is almost un- approachable itself, and will detect the fowler through every disguise.
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