Martins

 

April 23.

All our cities are furnished with houses for the reception of these birds;

 and it is seldom that even lads bent upon mischief disturb the favoured Martin.

 ~J.J. Audubon

Haverhill. -- Martins.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 23, 1853

Martins. See April 17, 1854 ("Every shopkeeper makes a record of the arrival of the first martin or bluebird to his box . . .  John Brown, merchant, tells me this morning that the martins first came to his box on the 13th, he "made a minute of it."  Beside so many entries in their day-books and ledgers, they record these things."); April 17, 1860 ("J. Brown says that he saw martins on his box on the 13th and 14th, and that his son saw one the 8th(?)"); April 18, 1855 ("White-bellied swallows and martins twitter now at 9 A. M."); April 22, 1852 ("Mr. Holbrook tells me he heard and saw martins (?) yesterday"); April 22, 1858("Hear martins about a box."); See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Martins in Early Spring

Haverhill. See April 11, 1853 ("To Haverhill via Cambridge and Boston."); April 13, 1853 (" First shad caught at Haverhill to-day.");April 19, 1853 ("Haverhill. — Willow and bass strip freely.");  April 20, 1853 ("Saw a toad and a small snake .");April 21, 1853 ("Haverhill. — A peach tree in bloom."); April 24, 1863 ("Sunday. To and around Creek Pond and back over Parsonage hill, Haverhill."); April 29, 1853 (" Return to Concord."); May 16, 1853 ("Had thunder-shower while I was in Haverhill in April.")

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