To Andromeda Ponds.

November 13.

Andromeda is a dull reddish brown, like oak leaves. 

Yellow redpoll warbler

Saw a flock of little passenger birds by Walden, busily pecking at the white birch catkins; about the size of a chickadee; distinct white bar on wings, most with dark pencilled breast, some with whitish; forked tail; bright chestnut or crimson (?) frontlet; yellowish shoulders or sack. When startled, they went off with a jingling sound somewhat like emptying a bag of coin. Is it the yellow redpoll?

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 13, 1852

A jingling sound somewhat like emptying a bag of coin. Is it the yellow redpoll? See April 15, 1856 ("From amid the willows and alders along the wall there, I hear a bird sing, a-chitter chitter chitter chitter chitter chitter, che che che che, with increasing intensity and rapidity, and the yellow redpoll hops in sight."); April 23, 1856 ("Hear the yellow redpoll sing on the maples below Dove Rock, —a peculiar though not very interesting strain, or jingle.”); September 19, 1854 ("Did I see a returned yellow redpoll fly by?”).