Summery yellow bird; young red maples; a yellow redpoll still.

May 10.

Canada plum opens petals to-day and leafs. Domestic plum only leafs. 

Summer yellowbird. 

Young red maples are generally later to leaf than young sugar maples; hardly began before yesterday; and large white are not so forward as young sugar. 

Muhlenberg’s willow leafed four or five days. Young yellow birch leaf, say two days. 

In Callitriche Pool hear a bullfrog belch or dump. Is that a proserpinaca with finely divided leaves in this pool? 

Hear a tree-toad, — or, maybe, a woodpecker tapping. 

A juncus in Hubbard’s Close two feet high and big as a crow’s quill. 

Round-leafed cornel leaf to-morrow; also pignut leaf to-day in some places. 

The beech leaf-buds are more backward, apparently, than chestnut, but some leaves are expanding with the flower-buds, which are now opened so as to show the separate buds. 

Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, early blueberry, in bloom; probably may shed pollen. 

A yellow redpoll still.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 10, 1855

In Callitriche Pool hear a bullfrog belch. . . See April 16, 1856 ("Frogs sit round Callitriche Pool, where the tin is cast. We have waste places — pools and brooks, etc., -— where to cast tin, iron, slag, crockery, etc."); April 16, 1855 ("This pool dries up in summer. The very pools, the receptacles of all kinds of rubbish, now, soon after the ice has melted, so transparent and of glassy smoothness and full of animal and vegetable life, are interesting and beautiful objects.”)

Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, early blueberry, in bloom; probably may shed pollen. See May 10, 1856 ("Some Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum out in Cut woods; maybe a day, as it has rained steadily the last two days. It seems to bloom with or immediately after the bear-berry.")

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, May 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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