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3 March 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Moore’s larch trees beyond Sleepy Hollow cut this winter. They were much decayed. The woodpeckers had stripped many of bark in pursuit of grubs. When the woodpeckers visit your woods in great numbers, you may suspect that it is time to cut them . . .
(Journal, 3:329)
3 March 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal on 5 March:

  The day before [i.e. two days ago] went to the Corner Spring to look at the tufts of green grass (Journal, 5:3).
3 March 1854. New York, N.Y.

A letter from Horace Greeley and McEliath signed by Sinclair acknowledges Thoreau’s letter to Greeley for a subscription to the Tribune Semi-Weekly, stating that they would send the paper although no money had yet been received (MS letter, NNPM).

3 March 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  This afternoon it is somewhat overcast for the first time since February 18th inclusive. I see a dirty-white miller fluttering about over the winter-rye patch next to Hubbard’s Grove . . . (Journal, 7:227-229).
3 March 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Cambridge (Journal, 8:199).

Thoreau also checks out Junius Moderatus Columella Of husbandry. In twelve books: and his book concerning trees. Tr. into English, David Cusick’s sketches of ancient history of the Six nations, a volume containing New views of the origin of the tribes and natives of America by Benjamin Smith Barton, The Welch Indians by George Burder, and Observations on the Language of the Muhhakeneew Indians by Jonathan Edwards from Harvard College Library.

(Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 291)

New Bedford, Mass. Daniel Ricketson writes to Thoreau (Studies in the American Renaissance 1982, 368; MS, private owner).

Thoreau replies 5 March.

3 March 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Fair Haven Hill . . .

  The red maple sap, which I first noticed the 21st of February, is now frozen up in the auger-holes and thence down the trunk to the ground, except in one place where the hole was made in the south side of the tree . . . Skating yesterday and to-day.

(Journal, 9:285-287)
3 March 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Going to Acton this morning, I saw some sparrows on the wall, which I think must have been F. hyemalis (?).

  P.M.—Up river to Nut Meadow Brook . . .

  Channing [William Ellery Channing] tells me he has met with a sassafras tree in New Bedford woods, which, according to a string which he put round it, is eleven and three quarters feet in circumference at about three feet from the ground . . .

(Journal, 12:6-11)
3 March 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  2 P.M.—50º; overcast and somewhat rain-threatening; wind southwest.

  To Abner Buttrick and Tarbell Hills.

  See a flock of large ducks in a line,—maybe black?—over Great Meadows; also a few sheldrakes.

  It was pleasant to hear the tinkling of very coarse brash—broken honeycombed dark ice—rattling one piece against another along the northeast shores, to which it has drifted.

  Scarcely any ice now about river except what rests on the bottom of the meadows, dirty with sediment . . . .

  C. [William Ellery Channing] says that Walden began to be hard to get on to the first of March. I saw this afternoon a meadow below Flint’s willow-row still frozen over (at 3 P.M.) . . .

(Journal, 13:176-178)
3 March 1861. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Hear that there was a flock of geese in the river last night . . . (Journal, 14:321-322).
3 May 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau writes an essay on the lives of Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg (Early Essays and Miscellanies, 42-4).

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