He was resigned to that; he wouldn't go around beating empty bushes, hoping to flush birds from them.

These areas are good areas to walk during this time to flush birds.

He does this in order to mark the fall and to avoid flushing other birds when pursuing a missed bird.

They were bred as gun dogs; to use their sense of smell to cover low areas near the handler in order to flush birds into the air to be shot, and to use their eyes and nose to locate the bird once downed, and then to retrieve the bird with a soft mouth.

The Boykin Spaniel is a versatile hunter, working as a retriever and upland hunter, flushing birds into flight.

She was also a keen gardener, at her homes in Girton, Cambridgeshire and Cambridge, and kept Terriers, which she trained to flush birds so that she could count them.

While she was hunting with her father one day in eastern Washington, the dogs flushed several birds, she took aim and bagged a prize.