their breeding grounds with a generous 
volley of hot shot. Shore-bird shooting 
seems to offer an attraction to the old- 
time duck shooters as well as to the 
dyed-in-the-wool or purist type of field 
shot. This is partially accounted for 
by the fact that most of the members 
of both categories are unable to wait 
for the opening of the season on their 
favorite form of wing shooting, and 
also that shore-bird shooting contains 
some of the delightful elements that 
appeal to both classes of shooters. 
The shooting is generally carried on 
from blinds which vary in construction 
from those more or less elaborately 
built of a raised platform and cedar 
boughs cut about four feet in length 
and stuck in the sand to a pile of 
brush consisting of sedge bushes and 
seaweed thrown together in a manner 
to sufficiently conceal the hunter seated 
on a soap-box. Occasionally very ex¬ 
cellent natural blinds can be found, in 
which case they should always be se¬ 
lected, as the birds have already be¬ 
come acquainted with them, thereby 
allaying any suspicion which new ob¬ 
jects on a landscape would tend to 
create. 
The selection of the location of a 
blind depends entirely upon the section 
and character of the country and the 
species of birds sought. Meadow pond 
holes and the muddy margin of creeks 
afford excellent locations for yellow- 
legs, and a sandbar is especially recom¬ 
mended as a likely spot to find the 
plovers. The species will also be found 
to change with the varying tides. Dry 
ground when it first becomes inundated 
is an especially desirable spot to find 
almost any species of shore birds, es¬ 
pecially the lesser yellowlegs, as such 
ground affords unlimited opportunities 
for probing for worms and various 
grubs. In most localities, however, it 
is generally a fact that no two species 
are alike as regards feeding habits, 
and an intimate knowledge of the birds 
m a given locality is the best guide to 
ensure the proper location of the blind. 
There are two methods which are 
generally employed simultaneously in 
attracting the birds within shooting 
distance of the hunter concealed in his 
blind, viz., by decoys and by an imita¬ 
tion of the respective calls. The latter 
is perhaps the most important, as an 
accurate imitation of the individual call 
judiciously used is the surest means 
of attracting the birds to a given lo¬ 
cality and keeping them there, whereas 
a poorly imitated call is frequently but 
not always the surest means of fright¬ 
ening them away. These calls may 
either be imitated by means of the 
Variety of manufactured calls of tin 
or bone on the market or by means of 
the lips alone as the ^old-timers” pre¬ 
fer doing it. 
The decoys may be made of either 
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