November birding

November 8

I can still rake clams near the shore, but they are chiefly in the weeds, I think. 

I see a snipe-like bird by riverside this windy afternoon, which goes off with a sound like creaking tackle.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 8, 1854

A snipe-like bird by riverside. See  November 5, 1857 ("Start up a snipe feeding in a wet part of the Dam Meadows."); November 11, 1858 ("Scare up a bird which at first ran in the grass, then flew, —a snipe."); See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau,  the Snipe  and  November 8, 1853 ("Birds generally wear the russet dress of nature at this season. They have their fall no less than the plants; the bright tints depart from their foliage or feathers, and they flit past like withered leaves in rustling flocks.")