February 14

Posted by sydney on Feb 14th, 2008

vocalizing vixen
Vocalizing fox, photo by Trevor P. Hirst

  • 1791: February 14, 1791 – Potted cucumbers: bed warm.
  • 1786: February 14, 1786 – Bullfinches eat the buds of honey-suckles.
  • 1784: February 14, 1784 – Sent Thomas as Pioneer to open the road to Faringdon: but there was little obstruction, except at the gate into Faringodn Hirn.
  • 1783: February 14, 1783 – Showers.  A perfect & lovely rain-bow.
  • 1781: February 14, 1781 – A pair of ravens build in the hanger.
  • 1778: February 14, 1778 – Foxes begin now to be very rank, & to smell so high that as one rides along of a morning it is easy to distinguish where they have been the night before.  At this season the intercourse between the sexes commences; & the females intimate their wants to the males by three or four little sharp yelpings or barkings frequently repeated.  This anecdote I learned by living formerly at an house opposite to a neighbour that kept a tame bitch-fox, which every spring about candlemass began her amorous serenade as soon as it grew dark, & continued it nightly thro’ ye months of Feb. & March.
  • 1774: February 14, 1774 – The ivy, hedra helix, blows in Sept: Octr & Novr: the berries are now full-grown, & ripen in April:  thus fructification goes on in some Instances the winter thro’.  When the berries are full ripe they are black.

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  1. Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Camouflaged Says:

    […] as one rides along of a morning it is easy to distinguish where they have been the night before. The Natural History of Selborne They assault him with paws and tongues, licking him as though his face was made of sugar, clearly […]

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