97
Concord, Mass.
1913.
Aug. 26
to 
Nov. 13
(No 48)

109. Gallinago delicata - My only Journal record for
the autumn was made on September 6 [September 6, 1913] when, at Ball's Hill,
with the sun shining brightly at the time, I heard
the flight calls of at least two birds which were apparently
on wing at the same time over the marsh across the
river although I failed to get sight on either of them.
The river meadows were then too dry to harbor many
Snipe but were thoroughly soaked and for a time partly 
flooded by rains that came early in October when
the birds occurred plentifully enough according to the
local gunners, one of whom told me of the killing of
eight about the 1st of the month while another (George Holden) claimed
to have flushed upwards of twenty and to have
bagged no less than sixteen, in the course of two or three
hours on October 12 (or "about" that date).