April 12.
White-bellied swallows.
Elm bud-scales have begun to strew the ground, and the trees look richly in flower
60° at 2 P. M.
Hear a pigeon woodpecker's prolonged cackle.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 12, 1860
White-bellied swallows . . . a pigeon woodpecker' s prolonged cackle. See April 8, 1855 ("Hear and see a pigeon woodpecker, something like week-up week-up. The robins now sing in full blast"); April 15, 1855 ("Robins sing now at 10 A. M. as in the morning, and the phoebe; and pigeon woodpecker’s cackle is heard, and many martins (with white—bellied swallows) are skimming and twittering above the water,"); April 15, 1859 ("I see and hear white-bellied swallows as they are zigzagging through the air with their loud and lively notes"). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,,The Pigeon Woodpecker (flicker) and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The White-bellied Swallow
Elm bud-scales have begun to strew the ground, and the trees look richly in flower. See April 12, 1855 ("I hear a purple finch . . . on an elm, steadily warbling and uttering a sharp chip from time to time"); April 13, 1859 ("The streets are strewn with the bud-scales of the elm, which they, opening, have lost off, and their tops present a rich brown already. I hear a purple finch on one, and did I not hear a martin's rich warble also?"); April 21, 1858 ("The puddles have dried off along the road and left thick deposits or water-lines of the dark-purple anthers of the elm, coloring the ground like sawdust. You could collect great quantities of them."). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Elms and the Purple Finch
Elm bud-scales start to
strew the ground and the trees look
richly in flower.
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Elm bud-scales strew the ground
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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