Shooting, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Shooting, Vol. 2 Valley and ¿ats near Berkeley Castle, where it comes as regularly as do the pink-footed geese to Holkham, but later, as it does not arrive till December. The sight of the great ¿ocks of these birds on the Irish bogs makes any sportsman long to obtain a shot. But the geese know this ground so well that this is a di¿icult business. There is no covert but the bog drains, and in these the slush lies too deep for wading to be practicable. Occasionally, however, a chance is to be had from behind a turf dyke, or in heavy gales when the geese are ¿ying low out to the sands. The bird seldom visits Norfolk. A few come to Holkham in hard weather, in ¿ocks of from five to ten, when they are found to be less shy than the pink-footed geese. This goose is easily distinguished from the grey-lag, having the breast broadly barred with black in one complete and two partial bands, and a white rim at the base of the beak but the young birds do not show this white rim till January, and the females have no bars on the breast, which leads to great confusion with the bean goose or pink-footed goose. The feet are, however, orange, while the bill is orange with a white lip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.