Signs of Spring. Geese overhead.

March 27 and March 28. 

Surveying Ed. Hoar's farm in Lincoln. 

Fair, but windy and rather cool. 

March 27, 2020

Louis Minor tells me he saw some geese about the 23d.

If you scan the horizon at this season of the year
you are very likely to see
the undulating line
of migrating geese against the sky.

March 28, 1859

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 27 and 28, 1860

 Louis Minor tells me he saw some geese about the 23d. See March 23, 1856 ("I spend a considerable portion of my time observing the habits of the wild animals, my brute neighbors. By their various movements and migrations they fetch the year about to me. Very significant are the flight of geese"); March 24, 1859 ("C. sees geese go over again this afternoon. How commonly they are seen in still rainy weather like this! He says that when they had got far off they looked like a black ribbon almost perpendicular waving in the air"); March 27, 1857 (" Farmer says that he heard geese go over two or three nights ago."); March 28, 1858 ("After a cloudy morning, a warm and pleasant afternoon. I hear that a few geese were seen this morning. ") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Signs of the Spring: Geese Overhead