Thoreau writes in his journal:
Saw dead frogs, and the mud stirred by a living one, in this ditch, and afterward in Conantum Brook a living frog, the first of the season; also a yellow-spotted tortoise by the causeway side in the meadow near Hubbard’s Bridge . . .
Observed a singular circle round the moon to-night between nine and ten, the moon being about half full . . .
10.15 P. M.—The geese have just gone over, making a great cackling and awaking people in their beds.
