The whistle of widgeon and the shrill-sounding pinions of wild geese may be attractive noises, and no doubt all shooting is exciting; and a form of shooting which stakes all on one shot must offer some thrilling moments of expectation.
The quarry has to be measured by number, not by size, and fiftywidgeon at one discharge, or a brace of wild swans may almost serve to set against a stag of ten.
The Widgeon is an Old World duck that rarely, and accidentally, strays to our Atlantic or Pacific coasts.
Allow me to make you acquainted with Mr. Widgeon of Hull.
He had hurled defiance at the Northeastern Railroads, and that was enough for Mr. Redbrook and Mr. Widgeon and their friends, who prepared to rush into the fray trusting to Heaven for speech and parliamentary law.
At the hall door an uncouth figure was standing, awaiting him; it was Tom, bearing news of widgeon in the marshes and woodcock in the spinny, blown in by the gale last night, but the story was cut short.
Mr. Widgeon and Mr. Redbrook are pushing their way towards the door.
Mark took another, and sniffed at it, to find when he had done that Billy Widgeon had been looking on with an air of the most profound contempt.
But even here he was not left in peace, for Billy Widgeon came up to compliment him on his climbing.
The captain sprang down, followed by Billy Widgeonand Jimpny, while, as the men cheered and went on pumping, Mark ran to the cabin to return with spirits to revive the exhausted men.
It was daylight though, and, rising, he went out, to find that Small and Mr Morgan were taking the morning watch, while Billy Widgeon was lighting a fire in the rock kitchen.
Small the boatswain and Billy Widgeon rigged up tackle for the lad to fish; and he fished, but caught nothing.
Widgeon and Small obeyed, finding them already tied, and slinging them over their shoulders.
Mark shrank for a moment but seized the rope the next, and slid down so quickly that his hands felt uncomfortably warm, and he reached the deck as Billy Widgeon was unfastening the rope from round Jimpny's chest.
Mark sighed, and went to sit by his mother and watch the sunlit sea, for the cutter seemed to have grown dull and empty, and the gambols of Bruff, and the pranks of Jack fell as flat as the cheery words of Billy Widgeon and the stowaway.
Billy Widgeonwas the spokesman, Small occupying a sort of middle position between officers and men.
At that moment Billy Widgeon raised his head and looked up at them curiously.
Old Widgeon had been spending the evening with them.
Widgeon had slipped silently from his chair; his eyes were open, but he did not seem to see her, and he was breathing heavily.
It was always possible that he might change his mind; and from the oldest inhabitant down to the child just beginning to ask questions, there was always a sense of expectation where Widgeon was concerned.
At fourteen shillings she could live, and had managed even not only to pay Widgeon but to pick up some "bits of things.
Old Widgeon heard him in silence, and then turned his face to the wall, and for hours made no sign.
When good shots have been obtained at such masses of birds over a hundred have been killed at a single shot, and this explains why widgeon are sold so cheaply in the markets.
It is true that widgeon and other of the diving ducks are sometimes driven to the decoys by rough sea weather, but these are too wary to enter the pipes, nor do they stay after the storms have abated.
The widgeon is not known to have nested in England.
Being driven from their bleak northern haunts by the ice, widgeon appear in immense flocks in winter, and are by far the commonest of the migratory ducks.
The ducks which constitute the commercial supply are mostly mallard and teal, with a few widgeon and a sprinkling of the rarer or marine forms according to season and the severity of the weather.
The widgeon is an exception to most of the wild ducks, as it feeds more by day than by night, and, like geese, it is particularly fond of nibbling the short grass on the saltings.
He has calculated the exact spot where the other will rise; and, before the latter can open his eyes or get them clear of the water, the widgeon darts forward, snatches the luscious morsel from his bill, and makes off with it.
It appeared that the widgeon obtained its food by a regular system of robbery and plunder perpetrated upon the community of the canvass-backs.
I said that I should very much like to, as the geese were working well and there were reports of many widgeon about.
A widgeon will take nearly twenty minutes to roast, to eat plain with good gravy only.
To eat widgeon in perfection, half roast the birds.
The widgeon is but a poor diver, while the canvas-back is one of the very best.
The widgeon has observed him going down; and, calculating to a nicety the spot where he will reappear, seats himself in readiness.
The widgeon begins its migrations early in the fall and great numbers find their way as far south as the Coast marshes and lower lakes of Mexico.
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Hybrids between the mallard and the pin-tail and the mallard and the widgeon have been occasionally met with on the marshes of the Coast.
Solemn flights of wild geese, noisy streams of barnacles, curlew, duck, and widgeon wheeled over the harbour, and stimulated the sporting propensities of the seamen who kept up a constant fusillade from the decks.
It had been a tiresome trip by steamer to Anticosti, from there by schooner to Widgeon Bay, then down the coast and up the Cape Clear River to Port Porpoise.
The bill of the Widgeon is black; the head and upper part of the neck of a bright bay; the back and sides under the wing waved with black and white; the breast purple; the lower part of the body white, and the legs are dusky.
The Baldpate (so-called because of the white crown) or American Widgeon is a handsomely marked bird and is regarded as a great table delicacy.
The European Widgeon is similar in build and plumage to the following species, except that the whole head, with the exception of the white crown, is chestnut.
It was Mr. Widgeon Junior, a son of Old Mrs. Widgeon Duck, who was killed by Omnok the hunter.
Widgeon Junior looked up quick, in a frightened sort of way, but he never said a word.
They went down by the lakes and saw where Widgeon had made her nests in the warm summer time; they wandered over the hills and said "Woof Woof!
It wasn't any time at all before he was so far behind that he couldn't seeWidgeon Junior at all!
So he picked up his feet lively and ran along behind Widgeon Junior but he couldn't near keep up!
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