THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS. | |
| Brabant and Utrecht, besides several in Groningen, and the East Frisian islands. There are some very successful Decoys between Flushing and Rotterdam, on the Islands, and near the shores, of the Scheldt rivers, and the River Maas. Decoys are also worked all round the Zuyder Zee, as well as on the inland meres that are within a few miles of this great inland sea. The Decoys in Holland are very much the same as are ours in shape and accessories, though more primitive in their construction and manner of working. | |
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| In lieu of having a series of short screens placed along the sides of the Decoy pipes, it is the custom to have one or two long screens instead. The fowler instead of following up along the pipe at the back of the screens with his dog, and when he has the birds far enough under the net, running back to the pipe's mouth to cut them off, acts differently. He in preference waits well concealed near the pipe's mouth and sends his dog up the sides of the pipe by himself all along the front of the one or two long screens which I have alluded to. On the fowl rushing up after the dog, the Fowler, when he sees through his peephole they are far enough under the net to be caught, suddenly springs into view, and so urges the fowl into the trap at the end of the pipe. | |