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August, 1919 
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HAWK HUNTING 
WITH A DECOY OWL 
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annoy the owl, but never gets too close. 
After a few dashes he often suddenly 
alights on a nearby post where he stays 
a few minutes ano then comes back to 
renew the attack. That they really 
annoy live owls I know, for, when using 
a live Great Horned ov.1 for a decoy 
one year, he was on the lookout all the 
time when they were flying, and when- 
one came he would crouch lower and 
snap his bill at them and appear really 
worried. Quite often when a Marsh 
hawk came along, the live decoy seemed 
quite unconcerned and bored and paid 
little attention to it, but sometimes one 
would come that looked as if it meant 
business and then the owl would wake 
up and be on his guard. I have heard 
it said that no Sharp-shinned hawks 
should be shot, as nature takes care of 
the supply and demand as regards food, 
but when the amount of killing of song 
birds by these hawks is figured up, I 
believe that most people would prefer 
to have the song birds. I remember one 
day when the keepers of a club shot one 
hundred and thirty five Sharp-shins. If 
we figune that each hawk killed one bird 
a day for food, we get the almost un- 
believable total of forty nine thousand, 
two hundred and seventy five small birds 
that have gone to feed these hawks for 
one year. If we half this amount, which 
might possibly be more fair, we get 
twenty four thousand, six hundred and 
thirty seven, which is still too many 
birds to be sacrificed to furnish the an- 
nual food supply for one hundred and 
thirty five hawks. 
T he chief difficulty I encountered in 
photographing the hawks while 
flying, was in properly focusing 
the camera. If I focused on the owl, 
the hawk would be a few feet beyond it, 
or on the side nearer me, and would be 
out of focus, so to get any pictures that 
were at all good it was necessary to 
expose a great many plates. Another 
difficulty, almost as great, was getting 
the hawk in the picture at all. When 
a hunter is shooting a bird, his gun is 
moving along with the bird and he is 
able to lead it as much as is necessary: 
with a camera, however, it is more dif- 
ficult, as it must be fixed in one posi- 
tion, so to get the bird on the plate it 
is necessary to anticipate the speed and 
to press the camera trigger at the cor- 
rect moment. Time and again I have 
snapped when I thought I would get a 
fine picture only to find, on developing, 
that the hawk was not on the plate at 
all. This was proved to me one day 
when a large Bald eagle, the first and 
probably the last one that I will ever 
have a chance to photograph, came sail- 
ing up to the owl and flared up but did 
not come nearer than ten feet to the 
decoy on which my camera was focused. 
The picture is not at all good but shows 
the great size of the eagle and serves as 
a reminder of the difficulties and the un- 
certainties of this game. 
It is wise to have a gun in the blind 
