the Thoreau Log.
26 April 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I see pigeon woodpeckers billing on an oak at a distance. Young apple leafing, say with the common rose, also some early large ones. Bayberry not started much. Fever-bush out apparently a day or two, between Black Birch Cellar and Easterbrook’s. It shows plainly now, before the leaves have come out . . .

  We see and hear more birds than usual this mizzling and still day, and the robin sings with more vigor and promise than later in the season.

(Journal, 7:334-335)

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