With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . ROBIN IN BIRD TRAP. 294 WITir XAIUBE AND A CAMERA. astonished to find that, when journeying- south inthe autumn, tlie bird has, hy the time it reaches]3rightoii, become so bold that it visits streetsahiiost in the heart of the town in order to feedoff elderberries and rowans overhanging the pave-ments. Birdcatching on the Sussex Downs ai)pears tobe an inherited kind of instinct amongst somefamilies, whose members have followed the sportfor SNAL ON GrrASS-STEM. CHAPTE
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . ROBIN IN BIRD TRAP. 294 WITir XAIUBE AND A CAMERA. astonished to find that, when journeying- south inthe autumn, tlie bird has, hy the time it reaches]3rightoii, become so bold that it visits streetsahiiost in the heart of the town in order to feedoff elderberries and rowans overhanging the pave-ments. Birdcatching on the Sussex Downs ai)pears tobe an inherited kind of instinct amongst somefamilies, whose members have followed the sportfor SNAL ON GrrASS-STEM. CHAPTER IX. THE ART OF D U C K - D E C O Y I N G . OF all the contrivances invented by the ingenuityof man for the caj^ture of wildfowl, I think aDuck decoy is at once the most interesting and themost deadly. The first one made, and worked byenticing the birds into it, in this country was, itis believed, that constructed by Charles II. in Park. Some idea may be gathered of the effectivenatm^e of this engine of destruction when it ismentioned that about a century ago no less than81,000 wildfowl of various species were taken ina single season by ten Lincolnshire decoys. The precision of modern firearms and the greatincrease of gunners of all kinds have almost reduceddecoying to a lost art. However, there are still afew pipes, as the contrivances are called, workedin different parts of the country; and the man wholooks after those I am about to describe—three innumber—succeeded last winter in killing 1,500head of wildfowl, despite the fact that he was n
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