Cleveland Park Sept 26, 1930 This evening just before dusk I saw a woodcock in the yard next door. She was within 10 feet of the street when first seen about beneath a thick bush, and shielded by bushes. Passing automobiles seemed not to alarm her. She walked slowly right rapidly, holding the body nearly vertically, with the beak close to the earth. She bored often, but never deeply, but seemed to peck up something. Presently the woodcock broke from the street following the edge of a deep flower bed, at sometime on the adjoining lawn, threading in and out among the plants. Once she stopped still for a few minutes, evidently having seen us, at the window, but we kept still and she moved on. From where we looked down at her from the bedroom window, she was not more than 20 feet away. Soon she walked out on this open lawn several feet from the flower bed, and then flew away, up the street and over a hollow down toward the valley. All the time she was in the yard she was never more than 10 feet from our home or this orchard. Evelyn and I watched her.