Stalking The Wild Duck, 18th Century Style.

It is not the done thing old chap to shoot duck on the water! "What?" said the country boy, "they can fly!?"  An oldie but a goody. When hunting for food you don't shoot fowl on the wing if you can help it, it is a much surer thing to shoot them on the ground or on the water. This is the way it was done in the 18th century when hunting for food.



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Wood duck on Cattail Pond, Wychwood Forest, Armidale NSW Australia.

Wood duck. They have been known to nest in the reeds, but more commonly they nest in hollows in stags/dead trees. Here you can see the darker headed male on the left, and the female on the right.

Cree Hunters Of Mistassini.

This is a great movie, and well worth watching. I have lived like this for many years, both in the Territory and here in NSW. Now I no longer need to hunt for food, but I am very glad to have had the experience.
You will note that the children learn at a very early age, and carry their own hatchets, my sons were brought up the same way, though the tomahawks they carry now are full size. A couple of other things you will note, the children are given plenty of opportunity to experience, they can touch the furs without being chastised. In white society children are often chastised for touching things that the adult considers there is no need to touch, regardless that it does no harm. Children can play with animal parts, just as a child I was able to pull the tendons on pheasant and chook legs to make the claws clench and unclench. This sort of experience is necassary if the child is to grow up not being repulsed by dead animals hunted for food.