Remarkably and continuously pleasant weather from the very first day till the 18th. Vegetation is accordingly put back. Some had peas and potatoes in before it. First half of month very pleasant and mild spring weather, last half severe winter cold and high winds. Ducks have been lurking in sheltered places not frozen.
Robins feed along the edge of the river.
Great flocks of tree sparrows and some F. hyemalis on the ground and trees on the Island Neck, making the air and bushes ring with their jingling. It sounded like a new bird. The river early is partly filled with thin, floating, hardly cemented ice, occasionally turned on its edge by the wind and sparkling in the sun. If the sun had kept out of the way one day in the past fortnight, I think the river would have frozen to bear . Weather changes at last to drizzling.