A northeasterly storm.

July 8. 

A northeasterly storm. A great part of beach bodily removed and a rock five feet high exposed —before invisible — opposite lighthouse. 

The black throated bunting common among the shrubbery. Its note much like the Maryland yellow-throat’s, -- wittichee te tchea, tche te tchea, tche.

The Corema Conradii, broom crowberry, is quite common at edge of higher bank just south of the light house. It is now full of small green fruit, small pin head size. It spreads from a centre, raying out and rooting every four or five inches. It forms peculiar handsome-shaped mounds, four or five feet in diameter by nine inches or a foot high, very soft springy beds to lie on, — a woodman’s bed already spread. 

I am surprised at the number of large light-colored toads everywhere hopping over these dry and sandy fields. 

Went over to Bay side. That pond at Pond Village three eighths of a mile long and densely filled with cat-tail flag seven feet high. Many red-wing black birds in it. 

Small says there are two kinds of cat-tail there, one the barrel flag for coopers, the other shorter for chairs; he used to gather them.

See the killdeer a dozen rods off in pasture, anxious about its eggs or young, with its shrill squeaking note, its ring of white about its neck and two black crescents on breast. They are not so common and noisy as in June. 

July 1, 2013

A milkweed out some days.

S. said that nineteen small yellow birds (probably goldfinches) were found dead under the light in the spring early.

H. D. Thoreu, Journal, July 8, 1855