September 22
Posted by sydney on Sep 22nd, 2008
- 1792: September 22, 1792 – As I have questioned men that frequent coppices respecting Fern-owls, which they have not seen or heard of late; there is reason to suspect that they have withdrawn themselves, as well as the fly-catchers, & black-caps, about the beginning of this month. Where timber lies felled among the bushes, & coverts, wood-men tell me, the fern-owls love to sit upon the logs of an evening: but what their motive is does not appear.
- 1788: September 22, 1788 – The swallows seem to be distressed for food this cold wet weather, & to hawk up & down the street among the houses for flies with great earnestness. Some of my rasps bear twice in the year, & gave now ripe fruit: these berries the partridges have found out, & have eaten most of them. Thomas sprung two brace & a half among the bushes this morning. These birds were hatched in Baker’s hill. A flood last week at Hedleigh mill. The miller at Hawkley has long been distressed for want of water. Spinage very fine. Herrings are brought to the door.
- 1787: September 22, 1787 – Guns are heard much from Portsmouth.
- 1786: September 22, 1786 – Great dew, cold air, cloudless.
- 1785: September 22, 1785 – Charles and Bessy White came.
- 1783: September 22, 1783 – Thunder: rather the guns at Portsmouth. Splendid rain-bow. After three weeks wet, this vivid rain-bow preceded (as I have often known before) a lovely fit of weather. Mr & Mrs Richardson left us.
- 1781: September 22, 1781 – The well at Filmer-hill is 60 yards deep: at Privet, on the top of the hill, they have no wells, & have been greatly distressed for water the summer thro’. The Warnford, & Meonstoke stream as full, & bright, as if there had been no drought.
- 1778: September 22, 1778 – Bee-stalls are very heavy this year: this hot dry summer has proved advantageous to bees. Vast N. Aurora, very read, & coping over in the zenith
- 1775: September 22, 1775 – Ring-ouzels appear on the common on their autumnal migration. * The large female wasps begin to come in at a door, & seem as if they were just going to hide, & lay themselves up for the winter. The common wasps are much abated in number. On wednesday the 20 there was a violent storm of thunder & lightening at Fyfield between ten & eleven at night.
- 1774: September 22, 1774 – The oestrus curvicauda is found in Lancashire: probably the kingdom over. It lays it’s nits on horses legs, flanks, &c. each one on a single hair. The maggots when hatched do not enter the horses skins, but fall to the ground. On what & how are they supported? * Earthworms obtain & encrease in the grass-walks, where in levelling they were dug down more than 18 inches. So that they were either left in the soil, deep as it was removed: or else the eggs or young remained in the turf. Worms seem to eat the earth; also brick-dust lying among the earth, as appears by their casts. They delight in slopes, probably to avoid being flooded, & perhaps supply slopes with mould, as it is washed away by rains. They draw straws, stalks of vine-leaves, &c. into their holes, no doubt for the purpose of food. Without worms perhaps vegetation would go on but lamely, since they perforate, loosen, & meliorate the soil, rendering it pervious to rains, the fibres of plants, & c. Worms come out all the winter in mild seasons.
- 1773: September 22, 1773 – Stormy, with rain, sun, shower, windy.
- 1772: September 22, 1772 – Began parlour-fires. Martins abound under the hanger. No swallows.
- 1771: September 22, 1771 – Swallows abound. Tops of the beeches are fringed with yellow. This morning the swallows rendezvoused in a neighbour’s wallnut tree. At the dawn of the day they arose altogether in infinite numbers occasioning such a rushing with the strokes of their wings as might be heard to a considerable distance. *Since that no flock has appeared, only some late broods, & stragglers.
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