Air full of golden robins.

MAY 14, 2016

May 14. 

Air full of golden robins. Their loud clear note betrays them as soon as they arrive. 





Yesterday and to-day I see half a dqzen tortoises on a rail, — their first appearance in numbers. 

Catbird amid shrub oaks. Female red-wing. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 14, 1856

Air full of golden robins. Their loud clear note betrays them as soon as they arrive. See May 13, 1855 ("The gold robin, just come, is heard in all parts of the village. I see both male and female.”)

I see half a dqzen tortoises on a rail, — their first appearance in numbers. See   May 14, 1857 ("At the temporary brush fence pond, . . , I see, within a dozen rods along its shore, one to three rods from edge, thirteen wood tortoises on the grass, at 4 P. M. this cloudy afternoon.")
Female red-wing. See May 13, 1855 ("I hear from a female red-wing that peculiar rich screwing warble.”); May 8, 1854 (“A female red-wing. I have not seen any before.”)