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FOREST AND STREAM 
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June, 1922' 
DUCKS IN ONTARIO 
Dear Forest and Stream: I 
/^N a recent trip into the Nipigon 
country, in Ontario, where I spent 
a varied three months gathering mate- 
rial, I had occasion to get my fill of ’ 
most of the sports the woods — or bush 
as it is called there — and waters had to 
offer. We made Orient Bay our head- 
quarters, arriving there the last of 
August and staying through November. 
Canoeing, speckled trout fishing, duck 
and partridge shooting and the hunting 
of the larger game took up our recrea- 
tion time and, I must admit, a good bit 
of what we had set aside for other 
things. I had never been an enthusiastic 
sportsman before this trip, but even at 
the start I was not adverse to slinging 
my bird gun under arm or casting a 
Parmacheene Belle into the swift water. 
The ducks, perhaps, gave us more real 
moments of pleasure than any of the 
others, for it was in the early hours of 
those crisp, sharp days, which are so 
rare in my own state, and which com- 
prise what is known as Indian summer, 
that we found the black ones less wary. : 
True, the ducks were not present in the ' 
numbers common to some lakes in 
Michigan and Wisconsin, yet that madei 
the sport all the more enjoyable. My 
companion, Mac, was always the duck 
enthusiast of the two, but, after all, I 
doubt if he took notice of all the tricks i 
and devices the birds made use of. 
Always before, in the lakes and 
swamps of our Northern states, we shot 
our ducks from blinds or at least did ourj 
manoeuvering under cover, so on one| 
early occasion, when we spied a flock of 
twenty or thirty green-winged teal in the 
deep water of the bay, and paddled 
stealthily toward them as though they 
were deaf and had their backs to us, I 
laughed to myself at the humor of the 
thing. Yet they did not rise until we 
were easily within twenty yards of them 
and then they took every direction pos- 
sible, so that in two shots, Mac brought 
down only three birds. 
This sort of shooting was rather novel 
I found. It gave the ducks more of a 
chance and if they were not wise enough 
to take it, then what we could shoot be- 
longed to us. This philosophy proved all 
right in the beginning, but when the first, 
real cold snaps started coming and the 
birds grew more scarce, we found other 
policies advisable. 
On one occasion, to cite an examplei 
of how strategic a wounded duck can be 
I had brought down three gray ducks 
in one shot, two dead and the third witl' 
a clipped wing. This fellow remainec 
motionless on the water until we were 
nearly within a paddle length of him 
when he fluttered fifteen or twenty feet 
away and stopped again. We picked u[ 
the other two and started after the elu- 
sive one. I didn’t want to shoot him anc 
he seemed to realize it for he zig-zaggec 
back and forth up the bay, leading us s 
thrilling chase. The spectacle wouk 
have been highly amusing to an onlooke I 
to say the least. Sometimes he wouk I 
dive under and come up to the rear o 
the canoe. He seemed to be able t<| 
swim all right, yet he never went ove ' 
twenty-five feet at any one spurt. An< 
he kept it up so long, with always thii 
