July 28
Posted by sydney on Jul 28th, 2008
- 1790: July 28, 1790 – Children gather strawberries every morning from the hanger where the tall beeches were felled in winter 1788.
- 1789: July 28, 1789 – Lapwings leave the bogs, & moors in large flocks, & frequent the uplands.
- 1788: July 28, 1788 – Two swifts sipping the surface of Bin’s pond. The bed of Oakhanger pond covered with large muscle shells. The stint, or summer snipe. Large flock of lapwings in the Forest.
- 1783: July 28, 1783 – Wasps swarm so that we were obliged to gather-in all the cherries under the net.
- 1781: July 28, 1781 – Gleaners bring home bundles of corn. The black-birds, & thrushes come from the woods in troops to plunder my garden. We shot 30 blackbirds, & thrushes. The white-throats are bold thieves; nor are the red-breasts at all honest with respect to currans. Birds are guided by colour, & do not touch any white fruits ’til they have cleared all the red; they eat the red grapes, rasps, currans, & goose-berries first.
- 1780: July 28, 1780 – Vast crops of cow-grass. Much hay made. Vast lights in the air from all quarters. Crickets swarm in my kitchen-chimney.
* The flies, called by our people Nose flies, torment the horses at plow. They lay their eggs in the ears as well as the noses of cattle. Some of our farmer’s work their teams with little baskets tyed-on over the horses noses. These flies seem to prevail only in Italy. Round the eaves of the Priory farmhouse are 40 martins-nests, which have sent forth their first brood in swarms, At 4 young to a nest only, the first brood will produce 160; & the second the same, which together make 320: add to these the 40 pairs of old ones, which make in all 400; a vast flight for one house!! The first, when congregating on the tiles, covers one side of the roof! - 1778: July 28, 1778 – Wallnuts & hazel-nuts abound. One bank-martin at Combwood-pond: the only one I ever saw so far from the forest.
- 1777: July 28, 1777 – Lime trees in full bloom: on these the bees gather much honey.
- 1775: July 28, 1775 – Ten nests of wasps have been destroy’d just at hand: they abound & are ploughed up every day.
- 1772: July 28, 1772 – Veratrum rubrum. Brother John arrived at Gravesend in 37 days from Cadiz. He went from Gibraltar to Cadiz by land to get a ship. Ponds fail. Wheat turns. Hardly any rain at Selb.
- 1769: July 28, 1769 – The showers do not at all moisten the ground, which remains as hard as iron. No savoys, endives, &c. can be planted-out.
- 1768: July 28, 1768 – Gathered frenchbeans.
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