Dog day weather begins.

July 22.

I hear that many of those balls have been found at Flint’s Pond within a few days. 

See small flocks of red-wings, young and old, now, over the willows. 

The pigeon woodpeckers have flown.

Dog day weather begins.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 22, 1855

Many of those balls have been found at Flint’s Pond See June 19, 1853 ("No grass balls yet."); July 24, 1856 ("I find, at the shallow stone wharf shore, three balls in good condition, walking about half the length of that shore. Methinks it was about a week earlier than this that they were found last year.")
See small flocks of red-wings, young and old, now. See July 13, 1856 (“See quite a large flock of chattering red-wings, the flight of first broods.”); July 29, 1859 (“See large flocks of red-wings now, the young grown.”)

Dog day weather begins. See July 22, 1860 ("First locust heard.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Locust, Dogdayish Days

July 22. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, July 22

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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