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A collection of weekly natural-history essays that chronicle seasonal change through attentive field observation. The pieces record returning birds, flowering shrubs, insect activity, weather, and the everyday life of woodlands and shore, combining concise species notes with brief personal walks and local scenes. Each short essay functions as an individual field report and reflective vignette, privileging direct perception over theory and emphasizing the recurring, small details that mark the passage of the year.
[1] 1900.
[2] The formal record will be found in the Auk, vol. xviii. p. 394.
[3] How fallible a thing is a man’s memory! The wrapper was not yellow, but green. Yellow was for lemon. So more than one friendly correspondent has made haste to inform me, and the venerable shopkeeper himself has sent me a roll of the “lossengers” to prove it. My compliments to him.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.