Thoreau writes in his journal:
At 12 M. it is only 59º above zero, and I am surprised to hear some toads ring . . .
2 P.M.—To Little Truro . . .
Started up a nighthawk in the dry field near the pondhole. Probably they affect these dry and gravelly fields, as at Truro, where the small fescue grass grows . . .
