HISTORY OF DECOYS. | |
| Harwin informed Mr. Upcher that he had some good seasons. On one occasion, when a thaw set in, the fowl coming in hungry from the sea-coast, Williams drove up 75 wild ducks at once, the most he ever saw taken at one time. He had seen from 50 to 60 taken many times. After the death of Williams, Harwin managed the Decoy himself for two years. His fortune, however, in decoying was not so good as formerly. The duck-catching, he considered, was nice amusement, but working the Decoy was very trying in frosty weather. This Decoy was abandoned in 1872, and has not since been used. Hockwold, 8 miles W. of Brandon, between Brandon and Littleport.There was formerly a Decoy in Redmore Fen in the parish of Hockwold, ½ a mile from the south bank of the Brandon River, on the verge of the county, and which used to be worked by one Burgess, but about 1838 it was given up in consequence of its being too near the Lakenheath Decoy in Suffolk for both to be worked with profit. | |
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