In the interior the whistling swan is common, and numerous varieties of ducks are found in the lakes.
Above its surface tower a great number of volcanoes and several craters, and its waters are alive with water-fowl, a multitude of ducks of various species breeding on its islands.
During his absence we actually got enough ducks to give us all a most excellent dinner, and some to spare for the girls, who left all the hunting to the men and boys, and remained very comfortably in the camp.
On my return Gibson and Jimmy took the guns, and walked over on a shooting excursion; only three ducks were shot; of these we made an excellent stew.
At five miles we crossed the channel of a fine little creek, coming from thence; it had several sheets of water with rocky banks, and there were numerous ducks on the waters.
Of course I addressed them more in sorrow than in anger, although the loss of eightducks was a frightfully heavy one to all of us; but I was partially consoled with the thought that they would have to bear their share of the loss.
Just at the time I saw them, I had my eye on some ducks upon the water in the river bed, I therefore determined to kill two birds with one stone; that is to say, to shoot the ducks and astonish the natives at the same time.
The opposite shore was sandy; numerous ducks and other water-fowl were floating on its breast.
Ducks were also here; but as we had no gun, we could not get any.
A few hours afterwards I went after the ducks again, and by good fortune bagged six in one shot; one got away in the bushes, and the other flew away; and he seemed to me to have a very crooked flew at that.
The large sheet of water at the camp had wild ducks on it: some of these we shot.
We have seen no other native game here than ducks and pigeons.
Ducks can be seen gravely following the spade of a laborer, with heads to one side watching for worms.
Neither ducks nor geese, nor both together, are as numerous as the crows; they seem to be under protection, and they increase while population decreases.
Flights of ducksrose on the wing and whirled past.
Ducks resorted there in considerable flocks, and I several times found that they had been eaten by coyotes, as evidenced by tracks of the animals and feathers of the birds.
Quail, grouse, and wild ducks are caught on the nest, and both birds and eggs are eaten.
Wild ducks and geese, when wounded and unable to fly, may be found along the banks of streams and ponds, and the coyotes regularly patrol the shores in search of them.
The ducks of the sorts known as old squaws, scoters and eiders fly under water.
But the redheads and canvas-back ducks use only their feet under water.
But he had the satisfaction of seeing one of the ducksfall into the water, where the stream was at its widest, perhaps a hundred feet from the bank.
Or a labourer leaves a message that there is a hare up in the meadow or some wild ducks have settled in the brook.
Some poultry run about the mead, and perhaps with them are feeding the fancy foreign ducks which in summer swim in the lake before the hall.
Cockcrow, ducks quacking, the lowing of the cow, the swelling melody of wild birds--these were the sounds that filled her waking ears.
In the clear, saffron-tinted evening light some ducks sailed and steered about the surface of a muddy puddle by the barn, sousing their heads, wriggling their tails contentedly.
She looked around at the house, the dismantled buckboard tenanted by roosting chickens, the ducks in the puddle, the narrow strip of pasture fringing the darkening woods.
There ducks and swans, in vast numbers, had taken refuge, and pelicans stood high upon their legs above the remains of Regent's Lake.
Under cover of this they crawled towards a large pond on whichducks were resting but by no means asleep.
I should like several of these ducks for supper, if your Jap is less haughty than mine.
She suddenly forgot the ducks and pointed with her whip at the low hills behind her house.
I avoid being left high and dry, for if the ducks go elsewhere it is rather a bore.
The rest of the marsh is owned by clubs, and as there was no shooting here last year the ducks should be thicker than anywhere else.
I have not rented my marsh-lands this year, and intend to shoot ducks for the market.
The tea warmed and stimulated both, and they knelt by the fire and toasted the ducks at the end of the boat-hook, scowling with a preternatural earnestness both were too hungry to observe.
Isabel reloaded the guns while Gwynne went for the ducks that had fallen on the land.
XIII Mariana cooked the ducks with the skill of the unsung chef she was, and enhanced them with other delicacies for which she alone had a name.
But if you are still disinclined to sociabilities you can shoot all the ducks you want on my place.
The wolverene returned to where the ducks had been killed; plucked their feathers off and cleaned them; put them into a large kettle and boiled them.
The last word was so often repeated (accompanied with the act of the wolverene snipping off the heads of the birds) that the loon opened one eye and saw the headless ducks kicking.
To-day Captain Talbot and his boys went exploring, but a man was with them to carry the game they killed, and these consisted chiefly of ducks and rabbits.
And suiting the action to the word they seized poor Johnnie by the seat of his white ducks and dived with him under the water.
Many flocks of rooks were winging their way northwards to the shelter of the great forest, and now and then a string of wild ducks were seen in full flight towards the tall reeds that bordered an ice-bound lake.
The males of all, like those of the above-mentioned genus Chloephaga, appear to have that curious enlargement at the junction of the bronchial tubes and the trachea which is so characteristic of the ducksor Anatinae.
English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae of modern ornithologists, which are mostly larger than ducks and less than swans.
There do be wild ducks in thim rushes," said Murphy, musingly.
You mean that somebody has been down there before and scared the ducks away?
When the shrunken surface of the pool had closed again over the awful vortex, and the smoke had drifted off to join itself to the dark cloud which hung over the city, the little flock of ducks and coot was nowhere to be seen.
If the ducks are wild, they may be deceived by stripping off your clothing, daubing your body with mud, and lying motionless on the shore.
When we had killed enough, we had the excitement of chasing the wounded ducks in the water, and at last we counted our bag and divided equally.
Ducks have their signal call; but the chief weather prophet of the lakes is the loon, as the gray wolf or coyote is of the prairie.
We boys hunted squirrels, rabbits, partridges, and ducks with stones merely, and often succeeded as well as if we had had arrows or even guns.
Then our innocent-looking pebbles whistled through the air like real bullets, and at every volley several ducks would drop into the water for the swimmers to pick up, while flock followed flock in quick succession.
At the foot of their garden was a flourishing little poultry-yard, in which, with laudable success, they reared chickens and ducks and rabbits.
I don't mind the ducksand the chickens, but I absolutely refuse to eat the baby!
They paid their usual visit to the toy department at the dime store, and took a peep at the ducks in Bayshore Park.
At the duck pond Kitty took a small package of bread crumbs for the ducks from her purse and handed them to Billy.
One summer's day on the banks of the river Tweed, in Scotland, a fox sat watching a brood of wild ducks feeding in the river.
At short intervals this was repeated, the branch floating from the same direction, until the ducks took no further notice of it than allowing it to pass by.
So she drove them before her back into the pond, the ducks running in terror from her with their wings spread, and she not pressing them, for he saw that had she been so minded she could have caught two or three of the nearest.
So in this case, too, for realising that the silly ducks thought his wife a fox indeed and were alarmed on that account he found painful that spectacle which to others might have been amusing.
But her appearance threw the ducks into the utmost degree of consternation.
Whilst she rested her paws on his knee she turned her head again and again towards the ducks as though she could not take her eyes off them, and then ran down before him to the water's edge.
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