A wood pewee's nest at the Leaning Hemlocks.

June 19.

June 19.

P. M. — Up Assabet. 

June 19, 2015

A pewee’s nest (bird apparently small pewee, nest apparently wood pewee’s) on a white maple’s nearly horizontal bough, eighteen feet above water, opposite Hemlocks; externally of lichens from the maple trunk, and hemlock twigs, very inconspicuous, like a lichen covered knot. I hear many wood pewees about here. 

Young song sparrows flutter about. 

A yellowbird’s nest saddled on a horizontal (or slanting down amid twigs) branch of a swamp white oak, within reach, six feet high, of fern down and lint; a sharp cone bottom; four eggs, just laid, pale flesh-color with brown spots; have one. 

There are a great many glaucous and also hoary and yellowish-green puffs on the Andromeda particulata now, some four inches in diameter. 

Wood tortoises united, with heads out of water. 

Did I enumerate the sharp-shinned hawk among ours? 

Mr. Bull found in his garden this morning a snapping turtle about twenty rods from the brook, which had there just made a round hole (apparently with head) 2 1/2 inches in diameter and 5+ deep, in a slanting direction. I brought her home and put her into a pen in the garden that she might lay (she weighed seven pounds five ounces), but she climbed over an upright fence of smooth stakes twenty-two inches high.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 19, 1855

A pewee’s nest (bird apparently small pewee, nest apparently wood pewee’s) on a white maple . . . See June 12, 1856 ("Apparently a small pewee nest on apple in Miles’s meadow. Bird on, and not to be frightened off. . ."); June 21, 1855 (" On an apple at R.W.E.’s a small pewee’s nest, on a horizontal branch, seven feet high, almost wholly of hair, cotton without, not incurved at edge; four eggs, pale cream-color.”) See also A Book of the Seasons: The Small Pewee

A yellowbird’s nest saddled on a . . .branch of a swamp white oak, within reach, six feet high, of fern down and lint; . . . four eggs, just laid, pale flesh-color with brown spots . . . See June 20, 1855 ("A summer yellowbird’s, saddled on an apple, of cotton-wool, lined with hair and feathers, three eggs, white with flesh-colored tinge and purplish-brown and black spots."). See also A Book of the Seasons: the Summer Yellowbird