Monday.
Surveying Damon's farm and factory lot.
Our corydalis was out the 13th.
Hear a tanager to-day, and one was seen yesterday.
Sand cherry out.
Ranunculus abortivus well out (when?), southwest angle of Damon's farm.
Hear a bobolink and kingbird, and find sparrows' nests on the ground.
At eve the first spark of a nighthawk.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 16, 1859
Our corydalis was out the 13th. See May 3, 1857 ("Corydalis glauca is five inches high. "); May 20, 1857 ("I find that the corydalis sprig which I brought home five days ago keeps fresh and blossoms remarkably well in water, — its delicate bright flesh-colored or pink flowers and glaucous leaves!");; July 11, 1857 ("There is an abundance of corydalis on the top of the Cliffs, but most of it is generally out of bloom"); May 29, 1858 ("Cannot find any large corydalis plants where it has been very plenty.")
Sand cherry out. See May 4, 1855 ("Sand cherry yesterday leafs"); May 23, 1857 ("Sand cherry at Lupine Bank, possibly a day. “)
Hear a bobolink and kingbird. See May 16, 1854 ("The earth is all fragrant as one flower. And bobolinks tinkle in the air.”) See also May 10, 1853 ("New days, then, have come. . . now made perfect by the twittering of the kingbird and the whistle of the oriole amid the elms,, - if not already the bobolink.")
At eve the first spark of a nighthawk. See . May 17, 1853 ("I hear the first unquestionable nighthawk squeak and see him circling far off high above the earth. It is now about 5 o'clock p. m");; May 23, 1857 ("and at evening I hear the spark of a nighthawk."); May 25, 1852 ("First nighthawks squeak and boom."); See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,, the Nighthawk
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