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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Official Organ of The Audubon Societies 



Vol. XXIV 



November— December, 1922 



No. 6 



The Trailer-Blind de Luxe 



By GUY A. BAILEY 



With Photographs by the Author 



ONCE upon a time I sat on a cake of ice for hours with the thermometer 

 hovering around zero waiting for Ducks to come in near an improvised 

 blind of canvas to feed upon some corn that had been dropped in the 

 water near the shore. These Ducks were Redheads, Canvasbacks and Scaups. 

 They sat out in the lake apparently afraid of the blind. A few of the bravest 

 ones would leave the raft and swim toward the blind, then, becoming suspicious, 

 they would return to their more timid companions. A few minutes later some 

 more could be seen working gradually toward the blind. After three or four 

 hours of watchful waiting, the whole raft moved in and began to pitch and 

 and dive. Once they tasted the corn they seemed to lose all sense of fear. It 



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