Hard frost, ice, cloudless, sharp wind. No larks in the fields, & few birds to be heard or seen; probably this harsh dry air renders their food scarce, & sends them to the lower moister grounds.
Turned out the cucumbers into their hills. Beds still too hot. The dry weather has lasted just a month. Roads all dryed up.
Sharp air. Three swallows were seen I hear this day over the paper-mill pond at Bramshot.
Grass begins to grow. A large flock of titlarks on the common, feeding & flitting on, probably going down to the forest to the moory moist places.
Coluber natrix. Summer weather with a brisk wind. Cock & hen wheatear.
Lacerta. Sky thickens with flisky clouds.
Many sorts of insects begin to come out. Water-insects begin to move. Milvus aeruginosus? Hot in the sun.
Mild & grey, sun. Ants. Chrysomela Gottingensis. This insect is very common with us.
Wh: frost, thick ice, cloudless sky. Skylarks rise & sing a little.
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