See from window with glass seven ducks on meadow-water, — only one or two conspicuously white, — these, black heads, white throats and breasts and along sides, — the rest of the ducks, brownish, probably young males and females. Probably the golden-eye. Jardine says it is rare to see more than one full-plumaged male in a flock.
P.M. — To Cliffs by boat. The water has gone down so much that I have to steer carefully to avoid the thick hummocks left here and there on the meadow by the ice. I see the deep holes they were taken out of.
The wind is southeasterly. This is methinks the first hazy day, and the sough of the wind in the pines sounds warmer, whispering of summer.
I think I may say that Flint's broke up entirely on the first wet day after the cold spell, — i.e. the 31st of March, — though I have not been there lately. Fair Haven will last some days yet.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 3, 1854
I think I may say that Flint's broke up entirely on . . .the 31st of March. See ); March 23, 1853 ("The ice went out ...of Flint's Pond day before yesterday, I have no doubt." ); March 24, 1854 (" Flint's has perhaps fifteen or twenty acres of ice yet about shores. Can hardly tell when it is open this year."); M arch 29, 1855 ("Flint’s Pond is entirely open; may have been a day or two.") March 31, 1858 ("Flint's, Fair Haven, and Walden Ponds broke up just about the same time, or March 28th, this year. "); April 1, 1852 ("I am surprised to find Flint's Pond frozen still, which should have been open a week ago" See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Ice-Out
I think I may say that Flint's broke up entirely on the first wet day after the cold spell, — i.e. the 31st of March, — though I have not been there lately. Fair Haven will last some days yet.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 3, 1854
I think I may say that Flint's broke up entirely on . . .the 31st of March. See ); March 23, 1853 ("The ice went out ...of Flint's Pond day before yesterday, I have no doubt." ); March 24, 1854 (" Flint's has perhaps fifteen or twenty acres of ice yet about shores. Can hardly tell when it is open this year."); M arch 29, 1855 ("Flint’s Pond is entirely open; may have been a day or two.") March 31, 1858 ("Flint's, Fair Haven, and Walden Ponds broke up just about the same time, or March 28th, this year. "); April 1, 1852 ("I am surprised to find Flint's Pond frozen still, which should have been open a week ago" See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Ice-Out
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