December, 1917 
POINTS ON DUCK 
CALLING 
FOREST AND STREAM 
637 
HETHER you shoot 
ducks over decoys, 
in the woodlands, 
on the pass, jumping 
or wading, the call is 
very essential. Yet 
of the great number 
of men who shoot, 
comparatively few 
are able to call well 
or with judgment. 
Nor is it necessary to 
cultivate many differ¬ 
ent calls. Two or three are enough. 
For the inland water-fowl, mallard, wid¬ 
geon, teal, grayduck, spoon-bill, wood- 
duck, black-duck and all non-diving ducks, 
the mallard and teal call is sufficient. In 
fact, the mallard call alone is usually 
enough for all non-diving ducks. 
For diving or deep-water ducks, the 
blue-bill call will answer, although if one 
has also at command the purring call of 
the red head, it will greatly help in the 
day’s sport. In shooting over ordinary 
waters where sport is to be had at red 
heads, blue-bills, broad-bills, whistlers, 
butter-balls and the others of their class, 
most of the ducks will respond readily to 
the blue-bill or the broad-bill call. Blue- 
bills are great callers, and on calm days 
can be heard hailing every passing flock. 
Sometimes the blue-bill calls the ker-r-r-r 
once, then twice and three times, and oc¬ 
casionally even four times. When they are 
feeding they often sound a contented kind 
of chuckle which is similar to that of the 
mud-hen when undisturbed. 
Sound travels a long way in a still marsh. 
When the call is loud the mallard, black- 
duck and widgeon detect easily the fraud 
in calls: therefore, modulate your voice 
in a marsh. Oftentimes these wary birds, 
after coming into a marsh in response to 
your call, will settle among your decoys; 
or they may alight outside of gun-range 
and study the decoys to satisfy themselves 
of their being all right. If not disturbed 
they will then slowly move towards the 
decoys, feeding and chuckling as they 
swim leisurely in your direction. 
Call to attract the bird’s attention to de¬ 
coys, then modulate j^our call. In a marsh 
remember the birds can detect the imita¬ 
tion much more easily in a loud than in 
a muffled call. Do not call too often. 
If birds start to circle away, a few low 
calls will often bring them back. 
If in open water, the birds often will go 
entirely around you to discover what the 
suspicious bunch of weeds contains, and 
at such a time lie low and do not try to 
keep them in sight all the while. Your 
moving will scare them quicker than any¬ 
thing else. Lie low, and stay low, and if 
the birds come in do not jump up if } r ou 
happen to be on shore. Rest just high 
enough to clear your blind when you shoot. 
Be assured the duck’s eyes are on the 
shore side, for there is where they watch 
first for danger, and any movement sends 
them scattering in an instant. 
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300 ENGLISH RING NECKED PHEASANT 
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