S28 THE CANADA GOOSE 
domain, and it is most amusing to see the astonished fowl scramble out of her 
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way as she charges about and hooks at them. Such a departure from the 
established order of things constitutes a quite unclassifiable phenomenon, and 
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the birds never think of escape by thght 
Let a gunner come creeping along the ground on hands and knees and his 
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evile is detected at half a mile, vet the self-same birds appear to have no con 
eption of a danger which lies below the surface of the ground, Advantage 1s 
taken of this weakness thru the digging 
of shooting-pits in the wheat-fields of 
the Horse Heaven country Tame 
birds or wooden decoys are put out and 
it makes no difference how manv wild 
geese pass overhead, so tf 
keeps to his pit until t 
settling 
Spring shooting unquestionably de 
strovs many birds which would 
in this State, and operates to send 
the remainder northward along 
the gauntlet of gun-fire It is 
especially regrettable in view of 
the fact. that the resident birds are 
early nesters, mating as they do in 
March, and having the comple- 
ment of eggs by the middle of 
\pril \. wheat-fed goose 1S eX 
cellent eating, and the problem of 
preserving some of this good fare 
for the next generation 1s worth 
the attention 
makers but of id 
: e ther farmers’ organizations, 
LOTHER GOOSI without whose intelligent C7O- 
‘ operation mere legisl ition S 
; ; ' futile 
Canada Geese nest chiefly upor 
e ground in water-side meadows, in rank grass or dead tules, in the sage 
brush, or even upon the rocks of river cliff or pebbles of river bars The 
amount of materials assembled may ary greatly \ few sticks and grass 
ec will hold the eggs in place on a flat stone, o1 grasses 
nd soft trash may support from four to nine greenish buffy eggs, deeply im 
bedded in down In Mav. 1906, we found a nest in Moses Lake on the top of 
