the Thoreau Log.
5 March 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Going down-town this forenoon, I heard a white-bellied nuthatch on an elm within twenty feet, uttering peculiar notes and more like a song than I remember to have heard from it . . .

  P.M.—Up river to Well Meadow.

  The snow melts and sinks very rapidly. This spring snow is peculiarly white and blinding. The inequalities of the surface are peculiar and interesting when it has sunk thus rapidly. I see crows walking about on the ice half covered with snow in the middle of the meadows . . .

(Journal, 12:13-17)

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