Henry Thoreau, March 17, 1857
For two or three days
I have heard the first spring sound –
gobbling of turkeys.
March 20, 1856
March 20, 2016
February 23. I have seen signs of the spring. February 23, 1857
March 2. We listen to the February cock-crowing and turkey-gobbling as to a first course, or prelude. March 2, 1859
March 19. I hear turkeys gobble. This too, I suppose, is a spring sound. March 19, 1858
March 20. For two or three days I have heard the gobbling of turkeys, the first spring sound, after the chickadees and hens, that I think of. March 20, 1856
March 22. The phenomena of an average March . . . About twenty-nine migratory birds arrive (including hawks and crows), and two or three more utter their spring notes and sounds, as nuthatch and chickadee, turkeys, and woodpecker tapping. March 22, 1860
March 23. I spend a considerable portion of my time observing the habits of the wild animals, my brute neighbors. By their various movements and migrations they fetch the year about to me . . . But when I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here, — the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverene, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc., — I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country. March 23, 1856
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See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau:I Have Seen Signs of the Spring
The crowing of cocks, the cawing of crows
My greatcoat on my arm
A change in the air.
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Signs of the Spring:
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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