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Show ORIAT FLOCKS OF WILD DUCKS. Hew IHVarent 1 rlbaa of Arliona la. dlana lias Ilia liana. Wild dii. ka from tha northern lake are swarming souths aid and In such numbers aa have never before been known In thla part of the aoiilliweat, says an Arlxoiia correspondent. Hunters Hun-ters who liaie ahot the mallard, the teal and the canvnstmrk In the Routh declare that never have they seen "'"'Whore surh flocks a" are settling down along the lower Colorado rival and the upper tlulf or California. In the allalrit and grain fields ducks csn be alio! sfter every Irrigation, the water driving Inaects to the surface of the ground and providing food tur the hungry blrda rrom the North. Frequently Fre-quently ranchers are able to shoot ducks from their door-yards, and last winter a large flock of canvaaharks settled down along a ranal which paaa-ea paaa-ea throngh th heart of Phoenix, and for a week kept uptown residents awake by their noise during tha feeding feed-ing bnura of the night. Down along the (ills river th Pima Indiana kill th ducks In large numbers, num-bers, using clubs weapons. Creep-lug Creep-lug through the thick brush, which grows close up to th banks of tba stream, or Ita bayous, three or four Pima lada will emerge suddenly and simultaneously upon the bank within a few feet of a flock or ducks. Each Indian rarrlea half doaen abort, heavy clubs, and these ar thrown aa the frightened ducks rise. Sometimes a two-foot mesqulte stick brings down two ducks. The Bert and Cocopah Indiana, along tha lower Colorado and tha gulf, hava a more Interesting method of getting their game. The older burka, wbo have bows and arrows, secure th birds by shooting, but th younger boy use a plan which la more difficult and leas certain. Early In the morning, before dawn, they arrange In th water of th unuiia nurse-nair riaias, weigniea ana buoyed until they float about thre Inches below water level. Then, attaching at-taching to these trsps king and strong lines, the boys lie In wait for tbe coming com-ing of the ducks. When the birds set-tin set-tin In the water, and finally congregate about a buoy, there Is a sharp and bard pull, and one, two and sometimes thre ducks ar hauled to dry land and than to th stew-pot. |
