Sentences with phrase «of duck decoys»

One madcap outdoorsman with the largest collection of duck decoys we find out in the epilogue becomes the president of the National Audubon Society.

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From duck decoys and hood ornaments to limited - edition sneakers and Pez candy dispensers, offbeat collectibles attract the eye of investors who crave tangible assets they can appeciate and that... well, appreciate in value.

I know of one program for young Catholics, and I doubt it's unusual, where the typical activities consist of having them read bits of The Celestine Prophecy or watch a videotape of The Sixth Sense — activities that I now think amount to buying them duck decoys, in Rabbi Gellman's unforgettable conceit.

He is also the only duck guide in New England who takes shooters out to the offshore ledges in a 60 - foot excursion boat fitted out with bunks, heaters, a refrigerator full of steaks and enough duck decoys to fill a large dory.

While most duck shooters snuggle deeper under the blankets, the Maine seabirder gets up at 4 a.m., drives his boat through swells that wash over the decks and turn them into sheets of ice, sets his trawl line of decoys, anchors in the lee of a ledge and covers his boat with rockweed.

Maine man George Soule quacks a duck calf that sounds like the real thing, but when he adds his bigger - than - life cork decoys to the Casco Bay scene he sometimes has trouble keeping inquisitive black ducks out of his blind

The researchers made fake bird colonies out of the decoy ducks on a beach in Adelaide, Australia.

With the help of a family friend who was an experienced duck decoy carver, James worked on the project after school and on weekends, ultimately convincing his school's art teacher to count it toward his graduation requirements.

James Lawrence, a 2017 graduate of the Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, holds wooden duck decoys he made for an art credit his senior year.

Duck Decoy comes in an assorted three pack of a duck, pheasant and goose, with eye - catching colorful patterns and embroidery for an added flDuck Decoy comes in an assorted three pack of a duck, pheasant and goose, with eye - catching colorful patterns and embroidery for an added flduck, pheasant and goose, with eye - catching colorful patterns and embroidery for an added flare.

Selected works include fine duck decoys, chosen from the Museum's vast holding of artifacts that help to highlight and preserve the history and culture of South Jersey.

Donald is fascinated by the way in which this system of values in the world of decoy making and collecting (still vital today, in spite of the anachronism of duck hunting) echoes so directly that of the art world — while the art world (in spite of claims that we are beyond modernism with its distinctions between high and low culture) would have nothing of such objects.

There are paintings and drawings, quilts, ceramics, handmade books, pieces of elaborately decorated furniture, duck decoys and weather vanes dating from the mid-18th to the early - 21st centuries, all produced by people from many different walks of life who had no formal training in art.

Those successes include the monumental task of eradicating invasive species, establishing a «backup» population of Laysan Teal, a critically endangered species of duck, bringing the threatened Short - Tailed Albatross back to the island through years of playing sound recordings and setting up decoys and conducting scientific research from monitoring carbon dioxide levels in a a world - wide study to analyzing marine debris washed up on the beaches to understand marine pollution.

Jerry took advantage of her warm, woodsy room to showcase her father's and grandfather's hats and fishing baskets, as well as antique duck decoys.