Thoreau's Animals by Henry David Thoreau

Author:Henry David Thoreau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

JULY 3, 1854

The clams are so thick on the bottom at Hubbard’s bathing place that standing up to my neck in water I brought my feet together and lifted up between them so as to take off in my hand without dipping my head, three clams the first time, though many more dropped off.

When you consider the difficulty of carrying two melons under one arm—and that this was in the water—you may infer the number of the clams.

JULY 3, 1860

Looked for the marsh hawk’s nest (of June 16th) in the Great Meadows. It was in the very midst of the sweet gale (which is three feet high) occupying an opening only a foot or two across. We had much difficulty in finding it again—but at last nearly stumbled on to a young hawk. There was one as big as my fist resting on the bare flat nest in the sun, with a great head, staring eyes, and open gaping or panting mouth, yet mere down, grayish white down as yet—but I detected another which had crawled a foot one side amid the bushes for shade or safety more than half as large again, with small feathers and a yet more angry hawk-like look. How naturally anger sits on the young hawk’s head. It was 3:30 P.M. and the old birds were gone—and saw us not. Meanwhile their callow young lie panting under the sweet gale and rose bushes in the swamp—waiting for their parents to fetch them food.

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