Strong northwest wind and cold.

April 15.

Strong northwest wind and cold. Thin ice this forenoon along meadow-side, and lasts all day.

At Conantum pitch pines hear the first pine warbler.

Have not heard snipe yet. Is it because the meadows, having been bare, have not been thawed?

Ripples spread fan-like over Fair Haven Pond, from Lee's Cliff, as over Ripple Lake.

At this season of the year, we are continually expecting warmer weather than we have.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 15, 1860

Strong northwest wind and cold.. . .We are continually expecting warmer weather than we have. See April 15, 1854 ("Snow and snowing; four inches deep.”).  See also April 12, 1855 (The mountains are again thickly clad with snow, and, the wind being northwest, this coldness is accounted for.”); April 26, 1860 (“ [T]he chilling wind came from a snow-clad country.. . . What we should have called a warm day in March is a cold one at this date in April.”)

At Conantum pitch pines hear the first pine warbler. See  April 15, 1855 ("In the meanwhile, as we steal through the woods, we hear the pleasing note of the pine warbler, bringing back warmer weather"); April 15, 1859 (" The warm pine woods are all alive this afternoon with the jingle of the pine warbler, the for the most part invisible minstrel.  . . . You hear the same bird, now here now there, as it incessantly flits about, commonly invisible and uttering its simple jingle on very different keys, and from time to time a companion is heard farther or nearer. This is a peculiarly summer-like sound. Go to a warm pine wood-side on a pleasant day at this season after storm, and hear it ring with the jingle of the pine warbler"). See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Pine Warbler

Have not heard snipe yet. See April 15, 1856 (“I hear a part of the hovering note of my first snipe, circling over some distant meadow, . . .”). See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Snipe

April 15. Strong northwest wind and cold. Thin ice this forenoon along meadow - side , and lasts all day. 2 P. M. — Thermometer 37. To Conantum. At Conantum pitch pines hear the first pine warbler. Have not heard snipe yet. Is it because the meadows , having been bare, have not been thawed ? See ripples spread fan - like over Fair Haven Pond, from Lee’s Cliff , as over Ripple Lake. Crowfoot abundant; say in prime. A cedar under the Cliff abundantly out; how long ? Some still not out. Say 13th. Mouse - ear. Turritis about out; say 16th. Some little ferns already fairly unfolded , four or five inches long, there close under the base of the rocks, apparently Woodsia Ilvensis? See and hear the seringo, — rather time [sic] compared with song sparrow. Probably see bay-wing (surely the 16th ) about walls. The arbor-vitæ appears to be much of it effete. At this season of the year, we are continually expecting warmer weather than we have.