A little snow in the night.

April 26.

April 26 2018

A little snow in the night, which is seen against the fences this morning. 

See a chewink (male) in the Kettell place woods.

H. D.Thoreau, Journal, April 26, 1858


A little snow in the night. See April 26, 1860 ("A man came from Lincoln last night with an inch of snow on the wheels of his carriage.")

See a chewink (male) in the Kettell place woods. See April 26, 1855 ("See and hear chewinks, — all their strains; the same date with last year, by accident."); April 26, 1854 ("Hear the first chewink hopping and chewinking among the shrub oaks.”) See also  April 28, 1856 (“See, but not yet hear, the familiar chewink amid the dry leaves amid the underwood on the meadow’s edge.”) and  also  A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, the Chewink (Rufous-sided Towhee)