The sun., 1916-11-02
HOE WATER FOR LOCI


Capt. G.. pos..nu Of 1850 H,ss. Seven
tenth street. shcepshead Bay. writes 70
a ,1 Storm sn" e, sn sho ean anel. t az ss., oSd T ~. i TOT
one day las. week Capt. Possenti. wit,
e. Powell guide, iet, Heiinser,s South
ducks.
Cod and Biackash on ~seabrtsht.
Tn. frs, cod OF the dir,ida season va.
taken on sunday lsst by . 9 Fransen Of
we.shed seven pounds Blsokrsh were also
Isssr in 'n the sa% dsy Pap Capt. David Martin.
Jt.'s. fishermen took ling u, the Cedars.
small Fishes Lure Families.
Fishing az Baychcste- on sunday George
Harm Of ns Eas, Eighty-scventh street.
vita bis sons Louis and Joseph, took iet
tomcods and 20 founders. Charles Feis,eI
ana sons. John and Charles. landed les
iemcods Mr. and Ms; George Hess caught
Ling and whiting 1t Ions Branch.
Ling and whiting are biting at the Lons
T. prsyiin, ssi East Grand street, Eliza
lins. / whiting. and j Mickey and A,
skecis Of Long Branch. n. j., 1Ts iins.
Piover season Open.
The black-breasted and golden plovei
season Is open throughout the United States
at present with the exception OF Utah and
California.
The binck.breasted piover has a number
OF common or local names such as black
hrea.t. black. bcllied. hectle-head. bull mead
chucllc.head. bottle-head and gump. II
10 probably best known as the black
belied plover.
The golden piover has been given q mum
her NJ ;ocai names including green plover
gr-en-head, green-back. toad-head. feid
5irl. pasture bird. brass back. pale. breas;
pa,e-SeIy. muddy-breast. frost.bird and
Its usual migration occurs In August,
passing through Massachusetts Long lei
anu and New Jersey In the early part OF
The golden piover In the fall migration
is u later bird on LonE Island and is moi
expected before the first storm occurinl
Wells ". Cooke, who made a study o
IA. distribution and migration OF NORTH
American shore birds.
The Golden plover 10 one OF the shor'
birds that has diminished most remarkably,
during the las. twenty years. Formerly
was enormously abundant and many ar
IN an nlmos. continuous stream acros
the Gulf OF ~. Lawrence and OUT 90 sea
According. TO Edward II. Forbush. VIII,
made n study of Wild fowl and shore bird
the black .bellied plove- has decreased Yer!
much over the continent during the las
twenty-five years except on the Pscin
MIR. roreush tells o. enormous. lights o
piov-r on the Cape Cod coast which ar
r~emeinoered by living witnesses Joh'
VI. Wins!ov Of Nantucket told NJ. For
hush that Ie'er Foiger. one OF his forme
shooting companions. awaking one nornini
In III" 1cs found a great storm raging
aid q: seemed ~ him as he looked gu
from his window that II was raining
piover"
lie and Deacon David y. Edwards Dad
ed up with ammunition, dividing a bat
% shot between them. Three ;lme- durinI
that forenoon they we're obliged TO z
down TO the pond and wash out ,hei
guns They sho; until 3 l.. ". and ki!ie'
plove- enough 20 a.! \ tip cart ,wo-third
The captain o. q cod n.hinG vessel the,
TO take the birds 70 New York for them
and to give then, half OF what he received
he returned them i?S Mr.. Edwards sal!
tina. he never knew before that the PEG
pie OF New York would eat plo,er.
Black Relied Gsmest bird.
Lewis stone of Ipswich told Mr.. For
bush o: a tremendous nigh; o. go,det
plc.er o? tho cc.s, In the after par, {,
in such number. and so fas, and low" Mr.
Stone said. "tha. any one who went Their
seemed In danger Of being struck by bird
va. Jiovins. or tn. nrs, day the wine
was north-as;, tho second day east. ant
the third day southeast, The next da'
Wa sunday. ami on Monda, the Bos;oi
msrkc. vas 70 overstockei with birds tina
M mark-tneu would give oE.y I'VE cent
apiece fur th"m. AMI a Mr.. Newell O
ipT"'NH. "a WiVN'N HH"'''' hh'' ny Sa'
ming Tor a time. because there was II
sac Tor bids
"Mr. WINSTON % Nantucket wei reinen.
oers II fight o. August ~, 1853, whe
golden p!ov-r and eskimo curlews laude
On the island IA such numbers as 20 a!
mos; darken the san. Between seven an
! eight thousand OF ,hcs- birds were kil!e
on IN" island aud on 1uckernuck. A
the powder and shot on Nantucket; wer
expended, and the gunners had to sen
20 the mainland Tor more"
To-day there IL another story 20 tel
TIL. place 30 shoot the black belle
plovcr - where the falling tide leaves eN
posed extensive sane fa;s and ~her
marshes and Wild ocean beaches snord
resting place ut high water. Invariabl
they vii head straight To the dccoys
games, OF shore birds and a little shootin
quickly teaches them danger. They be
come wary with much shooting and b.
tween stopping places ny high and keep I
the op.n 10 avoid anything In the nature @
a blind.
ON n. Western uplsnds the black be!
lied p,ovsr come well 20 the deooys an
are shot with the golden plov.r Black be
lied pioyer shootirg IL practically the sam
kind of shooting as for tho golden ployer
ON the Western prair'es Emerson Ho"
gives It's call as u keen whit! Wheel
whee'-whit"
Tn. eavorite way of shooting the plover
lin the Western states IL over dccoys, II
alrlos, impossible" to stalk them withou
the aid OF n horse or vehicle. one car
not walk near these birds, " e.
New York. OCT, q.
Trout's Minor Part In Fishing.
=, has been frequently said that the trou
tou catch p'Ay 4 minor part In the plea