Sunday, December 6, 2015

Migrating geese.

December 6.

10 P. M. — Hear geese going over.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, December 6, 1855

See November 20, 1853 ("Methinks the geese are wont to go south just before a storm"); November 24, 1855 ("Geese went over on the 13th and 14th, on the 17th the first snow fell, and the 19th it began to be cold and blustering") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Geese in Autumn

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