The soft murmuring of the reeds that fringed the shores told where the waterfowl had already found resting-places.
To a Waterfowl Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
This is repeated again and again and is one of the pleasant characteristic songs of the marshy grass-woven flats, where the discords of waterfowl prevail.
It is not loud but has a rich full tone, difficult to describe, but pleasant to hear among the discordant notes of the various waterfowl whose hoarse cries arise on all sides.
It is quite a treat to sit on the banks of this fine sheet of water and look at the innumerable waterfowl on its surface chasing their prey.
Biological Survey has created a migratory waterfowl sanctuary by constructing a large, earthfill dam on the lake just NE.
A popular narrative account of waterfowl in the northern and middle States and lower Canada, east of the Rockies.
Biological Survey has a large migratory waterfowl project in progress on the lower lake, and as the road winds along the eastern shore the nesting islands and several dams built by the survey are visible.
In this locality the waterfowl are described as being seen, not in crowds, but in "clouds.
Waterfowl were again seen and caught in abundance.
Perhaps an occasional waterfowl is eaten, but the present information on kinds of food eaten certainly does not warrant the destruction of soft-shelled turtles.
She rested awhile upon a seat, watching the waterfowl strut and plume themselves, the pelicans flounder heavily in the mud.
There she sat for a moment watching a pelican flop on his island, thewaterfowl race and dive.
The Porcupine was a marshy stretch of water, the home of muskrat and beaver, a paradise for waterfowl when the heavy hand of winter was lifted, a sheet of ice now, a white oval in the dusky green of the forest.
But the main army of waterfowl would of course not pass until fall came in reality.
No man who intimately knows a member of that curious, keen-eyed little army of naturalists and big-game hunters who go to the north woods every fall, as regularly and seemingly as inexorably as the waterfowl go in spring, can doubt this fact.
Dan fished for lake trout in the lakes of the plateau; he shot waterfowl in the tule marshes; he hunted all manner of living things with his camera.
Large flocks of swans and other waterfowl were sporting on the quiet surface of the lake; otters in great numbers performed the most amusing aquatic evolutions; mink and beaver swam around unscared, in most grotesque confusion.
Waterfowl make up in number and variety for the lack of life within the lake.
Nanahboozhoo's voice was singing in the center of the tent, his drum beating at the same time, while he in person went around in the wigwam or lodge wringing the necks of the waterfowland throwing them on the side of the lodge.
Go and tell all sorts of waterfowl to come, and when they are all together I will inform you what has been revealed to me.
Kesha Munedoo (Gracious Spirit) has revealed words to me to tell to all thewaterfowl some very important things.
All sorts of waterfowl came to Nanahboozhoo and they seemed anxious to hear what had been revealed.
Rather a noisy and bustling fairyland too," said Otto, referring to the numerous sea-birds that inquisitively came to look at them, as well as to the other waterfowl that went about from isle to isle on whistling wings.
Again, he can, by a short ride to the ponds and lagoons, change from upland to waterfowl shooting.
The birds that I have so far mentioned, while not game birds, are so constantly before the eyes of the sportsmen who engage in waterfowl shooting that they can not help but be interested in them.
This is only accomplished by great caution and a good deal of strategy, but when they are brought to bag the reward is a full compensation, for of all the waterfowl their flesh is the most delicious.
With us, therefore, waterfowl are not passing pilgrims, tarrying for a few days only as they rest and feed on their way to the open waters and green pastures in which they intend to pass those months marked winter on the calendar of the year.
Then, as the evening approaches, the wild ducks pass over, and every now and then during the night the weird cries of waterfowl resound in the frosty air.
I have shot at these great rascals when they have been swimming fifty yards from shore, and I strongly suspect them of visiting the nests of moorhens and other waterfowl with felonious purposes.
He led her over the ridge to the marshy shores of Gray Lake,--a dismal body of water over which the waterfowl circled endlessly and the loons shrieked their maniacal cries.
She knew now why the waterfowl had circled all day so restlessly: they too had known the age-old fear of the northern winter.
And it seemed to Virginia that the wild things that they passed were curiously restless and uneasy; the jays flew from tree to tree with raucous cries, the waterfowl circled endlessly over the gray lakes.
XXIV When the Chinook wind, moving northwest at a faster pace than the waterfowl move south, struck the home cabin, Virginia's first thought was for Bill.
My brethren, Susquesus was a great chief; the Waterfowl was only a warrior.
The Waterfowl had his ears open, and heard how beautiful she was.
All that time the Waterfowllived with Ouithwith in his wigwam, and she bore him children.
Almost as remarkable for its number of waterfowl of the same species is the roost on the east cliffs of Bonaventure island.
I met there on one of my visits an American "student" who had taken 369 clutches of eggs of each of the seven or more species of waterfowl there breeding, thus destroying at one swoop upwards of two thousand potential birds.
Foremost among the waterfowlfor beauty is the water-pheasant.
Far, far above the lower reaches of the sky, where the cloud of waterfowl were flying, above rain and storm and snow, was a solitude entered by only a few of the sky-pilgrims.
