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Game Conditions in Connecticut 
Birds are Scarcer, While a Fool Law is Hastening the Extermination 
of the Deer 
By Woodcock. 
Norwalk, Ct., Feb. 21, 1916. 
The 1915 hunting season having come to a 
close and the guns put away for their winter 
rest, it seems well to stop and ask ourselves 
whether the birds were as abundant as usual 
and if not, are we not killing more than the sup¬ 
ply will allow? 
My own experience the past fall was that quail 
were more plentiful than three or four years ago 
and in about the same number as in 1914. Con¬ 
sidering the number that was known to be in 
the covers at the opening of the past hunting 
season, a comparatively small number was killed, 
due in part to the fact that a number of our 
hunters did not hunt quail, hoping thereby to 
increase the breeding stock and in time give us 
some old-time quail shooting, and also, that the 
quail are very well educated and when first 
flushed make for the thick swamps and once 
hidden in the bogs are fairly safe, as anyone 
who has tried to hunt them in such places well 
knows. 
At present I know where there are five or six 
covies of from six to twelve birds, and they have 
come through the several severe storms in fine 
shape, although I have not been able to look 
them up since the last heavy snow. At present 
we have over a foot of snow on the ground and 
zero weather, and I fear the quail are suffering. 
As regards our woodcock flight, it was much 
smaller than usual and the birds strung out 
through the entire open season, but very few of 
them. 
A year or so ago, in an article published in 
Forest and Stream, I advocated a bag limit on 
woodcock and the Editor in a foot note to the 
article, said that there was such a limit at that 
time. I did not take up the point then, but will 
say that we have never had a limit on woodcock 
until the season of 1915. The law making a 
limit of five woodcock per day was enacted by 
one Legislature in that year and caused much 
indignation among certain of our hunters. These 
are the men who do not look very far into the 
future and make use of the very foolish argu¬ 
ment, that if we do not kill the birds, others 
along the line of flight will get them. It does 
not take much thought to see that with unlimited 
killing the day of the woodcock is not far dis¬ 
tant and the five bird limit seems to me a very 
good law. Not more than three years ago I 
knew of several men who made bags of as high 
as twenty woodcock in a day. 
Our partridge are not quite holding their own 
and it is noticeable how bare the smaller covers 
are of birds; covers which have for many years 
held a few birds each season. I think the auto¬ 
mobile has made a great difference in the num¬ 
ber of birds in these runs, as when formerly it 
took a good part of the day to get to your 
hunting ground, now the hunters are on the 
ground at daylight and are able to hunt four or 
five times the country that they formerly cov¬ 
ered and they drive from one patch of cover to 
the next, and so take in every small run in the 
locality. I really believe that there is not a day 
during the open season that one of these covers 
is not hunted. Back in the big woods there are 
still many birds, but the small runs fail to hold 
them as formerly. The worst piece of legisla¬ 
tion enacted in many a day, was the passage of 
a law, allowing any man to kill deer, meaning 
buck, doe or fawn, at any time of year, provided 
they were on his property, or he may allow any 
employe to do the butchering for him. Since 
the passage of this law we have had hundreds of 
wounded deer wandering over our State, blinded 
with bird shot, and with broken legs, and I am 
told that up to a month or so ago there had 
been killed in the neighborhood of twelve hun¬ 
dred deer since the passage of this law. This, 
if continued, of course means the extermination 
of the Connecticut deer and even if the next 
Legislature corrects this outrage, it is very 
doubtful whether there will be any deer left to 
start the restocking process. 
Several years ago Forest and Stream published 
a number of very interesting reports of the game 
bird conditions in different parts of the country. 
These articles gave a very good idea of how the 
birds were maintaining themselves and I think 
it would be interesting to have some such reports 
of our past season and compare them with those 
of several years ago. This would give us a very 
good idea of present conditions. 
