I see a snow bunting, though it is pleasant and warm.

February 27.
A. M. — To Hill. 

The hedges on the Hill are all cut off.

The journals think they cannot say too much on improvements in husbandry. It is a safe theme, like piety. But for me, as for one of these farms brushed up, — a model farm, — I had as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. It is simply a place where somebody is making money.

I see a snow bunting, though it is pleasant and warm.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 27, 1858

I see a snow bunting, though it is pleasant and warm. See February 1, 1857 ("Warm as it is, I see a large flock of snow buntings on the railroad causeway."). Compare January 2, 1856 ("They have come with this deeper snow and colder weather. ") See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Snow Bunting