the Thoreau Log.
3 April 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Saw from window with glass seven ducks on meadow-water,—only one or two conspicuously white,—these, black heads, white throats and breasts and along sides,—the rest of the ducks, brownish, probably young males and females . Probably the golden-eye. Jardine says it is rare to see more than one full-plumaged male in a flock.

  P.M.—To Cliffs by boat.

  Did I see crow blackbirds with the red-wings and hear their harsher chattering?

  The water has gone down so much . . .

(Journal, 6:183)

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