Early signs of fall.

July 19

In Concord. Young bobolinks; one of the first autumnalish notes. The early meadow aster out.

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

Young bobolinks . .. first autumnalish notes. See June 27, 1857 ("See apparently a young bobolink fluttering over the meadow."); July 2, 1855 ("Young bobolinks are now fluttering over the meadow, but I have not been able to find a nest, so concealed in the meadow-grass"); July 10, 1859 ("See many young birds now. . . Even hear one link from a bobolink."); July 15, 1854 ("I hear the link link of the bobolink . . .  Many birds begin to fly in small flocks like grown-up broods."); July 15, 1856 ("Bobolinks are heard . . . their link, link — above and amid the tall rue which now whitens the meadows”);  August 10, 1853 ("Of late, and for long time, only the link, link of bobolink."); August 10, 1854 ("The tinkling notes of goldfinches and bobolinks which we hear nowadays are of one character and peculiar to the season.");  See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, the Bobolink

July 19. See  A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau July 19

 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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