Walden is first clear after to-day.

March 29. 

March 29, 2019

Driving rain and southeast wind, etc. 

Walden is first clear after to-day. 

Garfield says he saw a woodcock about a fortnight ago. Minott thinks the middle of March is as early as they come and that they do not then begin to lay.

H.D. Thoreau, Journal, March 29, 1859


Walden is first clear after to-day. See March 28, 1858 ("Walden is open.");  March 29, 1855 ("Walden is more than half open") and note to March 29, 1857 ("Walden open, say to-day, though there is still a little ice in the deep southern bay and a very narrow edging along the southern shore.")

Garfield says he saw a woodcock about a fortnight ago. See March 28, 1854 ("See this afternoon either a snipe or a woodcock; it appears rather small for the last. Pond opening on the northeast."). See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The American Woodcock