A more delicate horsehair noose is sometimes set for finches and small birds.

I tried it for bullfinches, but did not succeed from lack of the dexterity required.

The modes of using bird-lime were numerous, and many of them are in use for taking song-birds.
But the enclosure of open lands, the strict definition of footpaths, closer cultivation, and the increased value of game have so checked the poacher's operations with nets that in many districts the net may be said to be extinct.

It is no longer necessary to bush the stubbles immediately after reaping.

Brambles are said to have been the best for hindering the net, which frequently swept away an entire covey, old birds and young together.