Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Black ducks flying northwest

September 30

September 30, 2023

Friday. Saw a large flock of black ducks flying northwest in the form of a harrow.

H. D. Thoreau, JournalSeptember 30, 1853

A large flock of black ducks flying northwest in the form of a harrow. See September 24, 1855 ("See coming from the south in loose array some twenty apparently black ducks . . .At first they were in form like a flock of blackbirds, then for a moment assumed the outline of a fluctuating harrow. "); September 29, 1851 ("Scared up three black ducks, which rose with a great noise of their wings, striking the water.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the American Black Duck


A large flock of black
ducks flying northwest in the
form of a harrow.


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