Think I hear bay-wings.

 

April 23.

April 23, 2021

Think I hear bay-wings.

Toads ring.

H. D Thoreau, Journal, April 23, 1861

Think I hear bay-wings. See  note to April 15, 1859 ("The bay-wing now sings — the first I have been able to hear . . .When the laborer rests on his spade to-day, the sun having just come out, he is not left wholly to the mercy of his thoughts, nature is not a mere void to him, but he can hardly fail to hear the pleasing and encouraging notes of some newly arrived bird. The strain of the grass finch is very likely to fall on his ear and convince him, whether he is conscious of it or not, that the world is beautiful and life a fair enterprise to engage in ") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Bay-Wing Sparrow

Toads ring. See  April 23, 1858 ("The toads ring now by day, but not very loud nor generally"); See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau: The Ring of Toads