Sentences with phrase «flush birds»

The Pointers, Setters and Spaniels were designed to help hunters find and flush birds out of brushy or grassy areas.

Long and low, with a unique golden liver color, the Sussex Spaniel dog breed was developed in Sussex County, England, to flush birds into the air for hunters.

They are incredibly agile dogs, allowing them to maneuver quickly in heavy brush and marsh to flush birds from their hiding places.

Cockers not only flush birds and hares, they retrieve them as well.

Unlike other spaniels, this breed was not developed to flush birds but rather to jump into the frigid waters of Ireland to retrieve dead or wounded wildfowl.

This breed was used to flush birds out of the brush so hunters could shoot them with arrows or have their falcons snatch them from the air.

Original Purpose: to help hunters find and flush birds out of brushy areas.

Original Purpose: to help hunters find and flush birds out of brushy or grassy areas.

Whenever we left the car to take a walk we flushed birds of many species.

When you haveacquired control of the way your dog ranges in the field — this takes two tothree months of daily training — he is ready for the final exercise before anactual hunt: response to a flushed bird.

Although he should automatically dothis now, he may forget at the sight of a flushed bird.

Upon flushing a bird, the dog must drop to the ground so that it doesn't charge on and flush others while the gun is empty.

When a dog comes to point, the handler flushes the bird out of cover and fires a blank from his revolver.

If he points, let him figure it out, don't flush the bird.

In the past, the breed had been used primarily for hunting, tracking and flushing birds and rabbits but today it's used mainly for companionship.

The Spaniel is a moderately active breed that is happy flushing birds from thick cover or lounging around the house.

The dogs worked the thick weedy ground in a zig - zag pattern until they flushed a bird, then froze until given the command to retrieve.

My sheltie herded, my daughter's setter flushes birds and my pug sits on my lap — this is what they are bred for.

We have dogs who specialized in retrieving downed fowl, dogs who flushed birds out of dense brush and dogs who stopped in their tracks to crouch or point in the direction of game.

Intended for flushing birds from thick underbrush, Clumber Spaniels are white with orange or lemon markings, most often around the head.

Flushing birds out and retrieving them could be a dirty business, so his coat is designed for wash - and - wear.

Does anyone know whether Clumbers and Sussex spaniels are still used for flushing birds?

These dogs eventually became the oysel dogs that were used in the Middle Ages for flushing birds and rabbits for the falconer's birds to swoop down upon.

Pointers and Setters point and mark the game, Spaniels flush the bird, Retrievers recover the game from land or water.

One of the group of spaniels that works before the gun, springing or flushing birds for the hunter.

This was a beneficial partnership as Scrapper, who had no teeth, flushed birds towards Aphrodite who dispatched them, but didn't eat them!

The Welsh Springer Spaniel is a spectacular athlete that can be happy flushing birds in the fields or playing Frisbee in the yard.

Land Spaniels specialize in flushing birds by springing towards them.

When they're not snoozing on your lap or receiving a belly rub, these royal companions are likely flushing birds out of a bush — an innate behavior deriving from their ancient spaniel ancestors.

The paintings develop a distinct narrative flow as the viewer follows her track, taking part in what she has found of interest such as a flushed bird, a stand of trees, a bog, or footprints along a lake.

Not exact matches

But there the dispatches leave off; not a word about whether the President is a snap shooter or takes his time and is content with one bird per flush; not a line on whether he works around between covey and woods to try the tricky overhead shots; not a word as to whether he uses the swing - through system or the pointing - out system when he pulls the trigger.

Since waterfowl is not popularly hunted in Kenya, the birds are reasonably unwary and have a tendency to sit tight much longer than ducks and geese in the U.S. Often we crept to within feet of a grass frond hiding a goose before the bird suddenly flushed practically into our faces.

According to Defra, exemptions in the Hunting Act allow the following activities to take place in limited circumstances: stalking and flushing out; use of a dog below ground, in the course of stalking and flushing out, to protect birds being kept or preserved for shooting; hunting rats and rabbits; retrieval of hares which have been shot; falconry; recapture of wild mammals; and research and observation.

Multiple eyewitness accounts describe Australian birds of prey deliberately setting wildfires by carrying burning sticks, in order to flush out prey

They also discovered that millions of gallons of bird droppings, flushed regularly from Talbert Marsh, can travel to the Pacific Ocean within less than 40 minutesleaving little time for saltwater and sunlight to kill the bacteria.

Next, they captured birds and flushed their digestive tracts to see what they were eating.

For example, a dreaming pointer may immediately start searching for game, a sleeping springer spaniel may flush an imaginary bird, and a dreaming Doberman pinscher may pick a fight with a dream burglar.

Flushing the digestive tracts of captured birds revealed that two seed generalists, Common Diuca - Finch and Rufous - collared Sparrow, adjusted their diet accordingly and ate more forb seeds at grazed sites, while grass seed specialists Many - colored Chaco Finch and Ringed Warbling - Finch did not.

While retaining the rounded, mildly turned - up tail styling of recent models, the»87 T - bird gets a radical nose job: Flush - mounted, aerodynamic, halogen headlamps flank a low - profile grille and peer over a bumper - air dam combination.

Within weeks, our 2 spaniels were patterning figure 8's down the field, finding birds, and were steady to flush and gun shot.

The truth is, nobody knows for sure where this small spaniel with the waterproof coat and keen nose came from, but by 1870, the American Brown Water Spaniel, as he was often called, was established in the Midwest as a versatile hunter that could find, flush, and retrieve birds with uncanny ability.

Again, some breeds of dog like Irish Setters were developed for their flushing ability, or Cocker Spaniels for their skill making birds spring into the air and startling the bird or critter to run.

The name cocker stems from the word «woodcock,» a type of bird the breed flushed out of fields.

Cocker Spaniels would use their keen sense of smell to find birds, flush them out and then retrieve the birds with an ever wagging tail.

They were bred as gundogs used by bird hunters to flush the game from the heavy briar.

It was created over 200 years ago in England as a birding dog both for flushing and retrieving.

The field springer can be trained to flush upland bird game.

And marvel at the amazing skill of our canine athletes as they find, flush, and retrieve birds.

Hunting dog clubs (i.e. gundog, bird dog clubs) are eligible to hold any of the three types of hunting tests: Pointing Breeds, Retrievers and Flushing Spaniels.

Setters: Because setters are used to flush game birds, they tend to be hyperactive.