A redstart's nest

June 23.  

June 23, 2015

Probably a redstart’s nest on a white oak sapling, twelve feet up, on forks against stem. Have it. See young redstarts about. 

Hear of flying squirrels now grown.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 23, 1855



Probably a redstart’s nest on a white oak sapling, twelve feet up. See young redstarts about. See June 23, 1858 ("A male redstart seen, and often heard. What a little fellow!")  See also June 6, 1855 ("On the Island I hear still the redstart—tsip tsip tsip tsip, tsit-i-yet, or sometimes tsip tsip tsip tsip, tse vet. A young male"); July 8, 1857 ("To Laurel Glen. . . . Hear apparently redstarts there, — so they must have nests near");  July 13, 1856 ("Saw and heard two or three redstarts at Redstart Woods, where they probably have nests ") See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, The American Redstart

Hear of flying squirrels now grown. See June 19, 1859 ("A flying squirrel's nest and young . . . Saw three young run out after the mother and up a slender oak. The young half-grown, very tender-looking and weak-tailed, yet one climbed quite to the top of an oak twenty-five feet high,")