December 13
Posted by sydney on Dec 13th, 2008
- 1790: December 13, 1790 – Blowing, rough day.
- 1789: December 13, 1789 – One of my neighbours, shot a ring-dove on an evening as it was returning from feed, & going to roost. When his wife had picked & drawn it, she found its craw stuffed with the most nice & tender tops of turnips. These she washed & boiled, & so sate down to a choice & delicate plated of greens, culled & provided in this extraordinary manner. Hence we may see that granivourous birds, when grain fails, can subsist on the leaves of vegetables. There is reason to suppose that they would not long be healthy without; for turkies, tho’ corn fed, delight in a variety of plants, such as cabbage, lettuce, endive, &c., & poultry pick much grass while gees live for months together on commons by grazing alone.
“Nought is useless made;…/… On the barren heath/The shepherd tends his flock, that daily crop/Their verdant dinner from the mossy turf/Sufficient: after them the cackling Goose/Close-grazer, finds wherwith to ease her want.”Philips’s Cyder - 1788: December 13, 1788 – The Stag seen again about Oakhanger. He some times haunts about Hartley wood, & some times about the Holt.
- 1786: December 13, 1786 – Peter Well’s well is 36 feet deep, my own 63. Peter Well’s well runs over: when this is the case, the springs are very high. This overflowing lasted only two or three days.
- 1784: December 13, 1784 – Shoveled out the bostal. Snow very deep still.
- 1779: December 13, 1779 – Much thunder. Great hail at Faringdon.
- 1778: December 13, 1778 – Peter Wells’s well at Gracious street begins to run over. The lavants rise at Faringdon.
- 1776: December 13, 1776 – Missel thrush sings merrily every morning. Song thrush very loud. A new magpie’s nest, near finished was found in a coppice: this soft season reminds birds of nidification.
- 1775: December 13, 1775 – Ice bears: boys slide.
- 1774: December 13, 1774 – The frost seems to have done no harm.
- 1772: December 13, 1772 – Female chaffinches congregate.
- 1768: December 13, 1768 – Wood-pigeons appear in flocks. Ground very hard.
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