May 9.
P. M. —To Annursnack.
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The black currant will not bloom for five or six days. A large red maple just begun to leaf - its keys an inch and a half long—by Assabet Bridge.
Castilleja show red, - one, - but will not bloom under a week probably. The same of erigeron.
Scare up three quails in the stubble in G. M. Barrett’s orchard. They go off partridge-like from within two rods, with a sharp, whistling whir.
Hear, methinks, a white throated sparrow(?) sing very much like the beginning of a catbird’s song. Could see no other bird. Thought it a catbird at first. See several of these sparrows yet.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 9, 1855
Hear, methinks, a white throated sparrow (?) sing. See April 25, 1855 ("Hear a faint cheep and at length detect the white throated sparrow, the handsome and well-marked bird . . . with a yellow spot on each side of the front, . . . I first saw the white-throated sparrow at this date last year. “); see also A Book of the Seasons the White-throated Sparrow
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