Thursday. A. M. — Surveying for Farrar and Heywood by Walden.
Hear a kingfisher at Goose Pond.
Hear again the same bird heard at Conantum April 18th, which I think must be the ruby-crowned wren.
As we stood looking for a bound by the edge of Goose Pond, a pretty large hawk alighted on an oak close by us. It probably has a nest near by and was concerned for its young.
The larch plucked yesterday sheds pollen to-day in house, probably to-day abroad.
Balm-of-Gilead plucked yesterday, not yet (nor on May 1st) in house.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal April 30, 1857
Hear a kingfisher at Goose Pond. See April 23, 1854 (“A kingfisher with his crack, — cr-r-r-rack.”); April 24, 1854 ("The kingfisher flies with a crack cr-r-r-ack and a limping or flitting flight from tree to tree before us . . .”)
Hear again the same bird heard at Conantum April 18th, which I think must be the ruby-crowned wren. See April 26, 1860 ("Hear the ruby-crowned wren in the morning, near George Heywood’s.”); May 6, 1855 ("Hear at a distance a ruby(?)-crowned wren, so robin-like and spirited. After see one within ten . . . feet of me as if curious. I think this the only Regulus I have ever seen.”); see also note to April 20, 1859 ("My ruby-crowned or crested wren”). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau: the ruby-crowned or crested wren. and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Winter Birds
It probably has a nest near by . . . See note to April 30, 1855 ( It must have a nest there. “)
The larch plucked yesterday sheds pollen to-day See .April 27, 1856 (The female flowers are now fully expanded and very pretty, but small. I think it will first scatter pollen to-morrow. ");April 29, 1855 ("The crimson female flowers are now handsome but small. ") and note to May 1, 1856 ("I judge that the larch blossomed ...”). See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Larch
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