Tortoise eats all day. In Mrs. Snooke’s ponds are vast spiders, which dive and conceal themselves on the undersides of plants, lying on the water: perhaps aranea aquatica Linn: urinatoria. The swallow seems to be the only bird that washes itself as it flies, by dropping into the water.
Scarabaeus melolontha. Grasshopper-lark chirps.
Wryneck pipes. The Ringmer-tortoise came forth from it’s hybernaculum on the 6th of April, but did not appear to eat ’til May the 5th it does not eat but on hot days. As far as I could find it has no perceptible pulse. The mole-cricket seems to chur all night.
Tortoise eats. Fly-catcher appears, and builds.
20 horses with vast labour cannot on moderate ground sow more than three acres of barley in a day, instead of seven or eight. The ground wants endless rolling & dragging. the drought has lasted one month.
Musca vomitoria. Maon’s morter frozen. Wheat looks yellow. Fruit-trees of all sorts blow much. Chill air.
The sedge-bird sings: variety of notes, but it’s manner is hurrying.
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