Two red-wings' nests

June 28. 

On river. 

Two red-wings’ nests, four eggs and three —one without any black marks. 

Hear and see young golden robins which have left the nest, now peeping with a peculiar tone. 

Shoals of minnows a half-inch long. 

Eel-grass washed up.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 28, 1855

Young golden robins which have left the nest, now peeping with a peculiar tone.  See June 28, 1857 (". . .the twittering peep of young gold robins, which have recently left their nests, and apparently indicate their locality to their parents by thus incessantly peeping all day long."); July 1, 1859 ("The peculiar peep of young tailless golden robins for a day or more"); July 2, 1860 ("Nowadays hear from my window the constant tittering of young golden robins, ")