Birding in July

July 10

July 10.

This is what I think about birds now generally : —

See a few hawks about.
Have not heard owls lately, not walking at night.
Crows are more noisy, probably anxious about young.
Hear phoebe note of chickadee occasionally; otherwise inobvious.
Partridge, young one third grown.
Lark not very common, but sings still.
Have not heard conqueree of blackbird for about a month, methinks.
Robin still sings, and in morning; song sparrow and bay-wing.
See no downy woodpeckers nor nuthatches.
Crow blackbirds occasionally chatter.
Hear flicker rarely Rush sparrow, common and loud.
Saw a snipe within two or three days.
Woodcock seen within two or three days.
Think I have heard pine warbler within a week.
Cuckoo and quail from time to time.
Barn swallow, bank swallow, etc., numerous with their young for a week or two.
I hear the plaintive note of young bluebirds.
Chip-sparrow in morning.
Purple finch about and sings.
Martin lively.
Warbling vireo still, and wood thrush, and red-eye, and tanager, all at midday.Catbird's rigmarole still.
Chewink sings; and veery trill from out shade.
Whip-poor-will at evening.
Summer yellowbird and yellow-throat rarely.Goldfinch oftener twitters over.
Oven-bird still.
Evergreen-forest note, I think, still.
Night-warbler of late.
Hardly a full bobolink.
Kingbird lively. Cherry-bird commonly heard.
Think I saw turtle dove within a day or two.

 The singing birds at present are: —

Villageous: Robin, chip-bird, warbling vireo, swallows. 
Rural: Song sparrow, seringos, flicker, kingbird, goldfinch, link of bobolink, cherry-bird. 
Sylvan: Red-eye, tanager, wood thrush, chewink, veery, oven-bird, — all even at midday. Catbird full strain, whip-poor-will, crows.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 10, 1854

Birding in July. See A Book of the Seasons,   by Henry Thoreau:

• The American Crow
• The American Woodcock
• The Barred Owl
• The Bay-Wing Sparrow
• The Bobolink
• The Brown Creeper 
• The Cherry-bird (cedar waxwing)
• The Chipping Sparrow
• The Dark-eyed Junco
• The Downy Woodpecker
• The Eastern Kingbird
• The Field Sparrow
• The Nuthatch
• The Oven-bird
• The Partridge
• The Pigeon Woodpecker
• The Pine Warbler
• The Red-eyed Vireo
• The Wood  Thrush

See also Thoreau's Bird-Lore

July 10. See A Book of the Seasons,   by Henry Thoreau, July 10

  A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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