Bethel, Maine.
1904
October 18
  Philohela minor
  At evening as twilight was falling Dr. Gehring
heard Woodcock rising & flying from place to place
in the birch woods below the house. One of them
alighted in the opening in front of the shack & ran
& flitted from place to place along the margin of
the little pond. Dr. G. saw it repeatedly jerk up
& spread its tail while thus moving about. Presently
another bird came flying to the pond and the
first removed to the house opening where it
uttered the paap call a number of times. The
second bird was seen to answer this call once. It behaved much like the first but
did not jerk up nor spread its tail while Dr. G.
was watching it. He thinks he heard at least five
or six different birds rise from this cover to-night
(I heard one there the following evening)
Woodcock
1904
October 18
Cambridge, Mass.
  Zonotrichia albicollis.
  Found a remarkable number of White-throats
in our garden to-day, not less than 35 or 40 I
should say. I was puzzled at first to conjecture what
they could be eating as there are few seeds of the
big Polygonum this autumn. The vines over the arbor
are loaded with ripe grapes, however, and I soon
noticed that the birds seemed to congregate there.
Presently I saw two of them engaged in sucking
the grapes. They would dive their bills to the base
into the grape & keep them there for several seconds
at a time moving the mandibles slightly. The grapes
thus attacked were Isabellas. There were also ripe
Concords & Catawbas in the arbor.