Hear the wood pewee

May 24.

What is that brilliant warbler on the young trees on the side of the Deep Cut? Orange throat and beneath, with distinct black stripes on breast, and, I think, some light color of crown. Was it Blackburnian?

Hear the wood pewee.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 24, 1859

Orange throat and beneath, with distinct black stripes on breast, and, I think, some light color of crown. Was it Blackburnian? See April 11, 1853 ("Blackburnian is orange-throated."); May 26, 1855 ("Black, with a large white mark forward on wings and a fiery orange throat, above and below eye, and line on crown, yellowish beneath, white vent, forked tail, dusky legs and bill . . .The Blackbumian warbler very plainly.")

Hear the wood pewee. See note to May 24,1860 ("Hear a wood pewee.")

May 24. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, May 24 

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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