Project Gutenberg 2025-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 996 Hay, John 1915 2011 Grose, David 1922 2016 61008166 Nature's year : $b The seasons of Cape Cod $aGarden City, New York :$bDoubleday & Company, Inc., $c1961. Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Nature's year : The seasons of Cape Cod" by John Hay is a collection of nature essays written in the mid-20th century. Through month-by-month observations on Cape Cod, the work blends close natural history with reflective meditation on weather, wildlife, and the uneasy overlap between human bustle and the living shore. Expect vivid portraits of birds, insects, tides, and woods as the seasons turn, with themes of migration, adaptation, and attention. The opening of this work follows July through late October as the narrator arrives amid summer traffic and tragedy, then retreats to a hilltop home to attune himself to the Cape’s microclimates and small lives—from a wood peewee’s hunting and periwinkles on tidal rocks to a moon snail’s drill and an afternoon under sail. August dwells on insect abundance and night music (including the temperature-telling snowy tree cricket), a companionable walk with an oven bird, and a wind-swept visit to Crow Pasture where a crippled gull and vigilant terns frame lessons in necessity. Detailed scenes at Paine’s Creek and Monomoy show young terns learning to fish and gather for migration, alongside shorebirds busy on the flats, while September’s clear winds, alewife fry, and dispersing fledglings replace the departing tourists. October turns inward to questions of home and navigation, a venerable box turtle, first frosts, teaching children on a shore ramble, and the season’s colors—mushrooms, Indian pipes, and reddening oaks—before colder winds, squirrels, and shrews signal the harsher change ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20241221085041hay 1961 US Reading ease score: 77.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Natural history -- Outdoor books Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod QH Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: American Literature Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals 330289 2025-08-01T21:00:22.856175 text/html 305090 2025-08-01T16:58:20 text/html 3501501 2025-08-01T21:00:32.045128 application/epub+zip 3498176 2025-08-01T21:00:25.689172 application/epub+zip 306708 2025-08-01T21:00:23.481156 application/epub+zip 11066454 2025-08-01T21:00:36.132144 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 11038827 2025-08-01T21:00:30.042176 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306745 2025-08-01T21:00:22.319193 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 286917 2025-08-01T16:58:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14110 2025-08-01T21:00:36.283157 application/rdf+xml 11598 2025-08-01T21:00:23.737154 image/jpeg 2214 2025-08-01T21:00:23.605181 image/jpeg 4998400 2025-08-01T21:00:22.950163 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog