August 8

Posted by sydney on Aug 8th, 2008
  • 1792: August 8, 1792 – My lower wall nut-tree casts it’s leaves in a very unusual manner.  No wall-nuts; the crop dropped off early in the summer.
  • 1791: August 8, 1791 – Some young broods of fly-catchers fly about.
  • 1789: August 8, 1789 – Two poor, half-fledged fern-owls were brought me: they were found out in the forest among the heath.  Farmer Hewet of Temple cut 30 acres of wheat this week.  This wheat was lodged before it came into ear, & was much blighted.  It grew on low grounds: the wheat on the high malms at Temple is not ripe.
  • 1785: August 8, 1785 – Pease lie in a sad state, & shatter-out.  Gleaning begins: wheat is heavy.  Agaricus pratensis champignion, comes-up in the fairey-ring on my grass-plot.
  • 1781: August 8, 1781 – We have shot 31 black-birds, and saved our gooseberries.
  • 1778: August 8, 1778 – Full moon.  The pair of martins which build by the stair-case window, where their first brood came-out on July 7: are now hatching a second brood, as appears by some egg-shells thrown-out.
  • 1777: August 8, 1777 – Flocks of lap-wings migrate to the downs & uplands.
  • 1775: August 8, 1775 – Broods of flycatchers come out.
  • 1773: August 8, 1773 – Hops have been some time in bloom, & do not promise for much of a crop: they are lousy and do not run up the poles well.
  • 1772: August 8, 1772 – Fog, sun, & brisk wind, serene. Ripening weather. Young martins (the first brood) congregate and are very numerous; the old ones breed again.
  • 1771: August 8, 1771 – Rain in the night, with wind.  Swifts.  Sultry & moist: cucumbers bear abundantly.  Showers about.  Procured a second large bat, a male.

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