1900 
October 4 
When I awoke at daybxreak the woods about the cabin 
were shrouded in dense fog. I could hear Crows cawing, Jays 
g ^ screaming, Robins calling, a Cat-bird mewing and a Screech 0w3l 
B*‘s Hill 
Birds 
whining. 
about the 
Presently a bird, which I took at first to be the 
cabin 
Cat-bird, began singing in subdued tones very near my window 
at day- 
uttering a prolonged medley of choking, stuttering, and 
break. 
whistling notes among which I soon recognized a feeble ren— 
Bicknell* s 
dering of the spring song as well as the call notes of 
Thrush 
Bicknell's Thrush. The next moment the bird appeared in an 
oak within a few yards and I identified him positively as 
sings 
Turdus aliciae bicknelli i $ h 1 - » J — a small, 
sotto 
voce 
dark specimen. He flitted about among the oaks near me for 
ten or fifteen minutes, frequently singing and still more fre¬ 
quently regaling himself on the berries of a frost grape 
which he usually took on wing, flying directly at the branches, 
seizing a berry while poising for an instant on beating wings 
and then alighting to swallow it. Later in the day Gilbert 
Cat-bird 
eating 
small 
wild 
grapes 
and I saw him at or near this grape vine many times. 
The Cat-bird also appeared repeatedly at the grape 
vine and several Robins joined him and shared his feast. 
The Rusty Blackbirds have established a roost this 
autumn in the button bushes opposite Bensen* s Landing. I 
A^koost 
o^^Rusty 
Black- 
birds 
heard them leave the roost this morning at about sunrise 
when the fog was at its thickest. Judging by the clamor they 
made as they p a ssed our cabin, there must have been over 100 
