December 26
Posted by sydney on Dec 26th, 2008
- 1792: December 26, 1792 – Bramblings are seen: they are winter-birds of passage, & come with the hen-chaffinches. Nep. Ben. White & wife came.
- 1786: December 26, 1786 – Mr. Churton came.
- 1785: December 26, 1785 – Many wild-fowls, ducks & widgeons, at Wolmer-pond ’till the hard weather came: since which they have all disappeared.
- 1782: December 26, 1782 – Crucus’s shoot. Feb-like weather. The Plestor, & street dry & clean.
- 1779: December 26, 1779 – Most beautiful rimes.
- 1777: December 26, 1777 – A fox ran up the street at noon-day. No birds love to fly down the wind, which protrudes them too fast & hurries them out of their poise: besides it blows-up their feathers, & exposes them to the cold. All birds love to perch as well a to fly with their heads to the windward. FOOTNOTE: The christenings at Faringdon near Alton, Hants from the year 1760 to 1777 inclusive were 152: the burials at the same place in the same period were 124. So that the births exceed the deaths by 28. I have buried many very old people there: yet of late several young folks have dyed of a decline.
- 1773: December 26, 1773 – White water wagtail.
- 1772: December 26, 1772 – Dark, rime, thaw.
- 1771: December 26, 1771 – Thrush and redbreast sing. Bunting, emberiza alba, at Farnigdon. I never saw one in the parish of Selborne. They affect a champion country, & abound in the downy open parts. Ducks, teals, and wigeons have appeared on Wulmere-pond about three weeks: one pewit-gull, larus cinereus, appears. A pike was taken lately in this pond measuring 3 feet & 3 inch: in length; & 21 inch: in circumference: in it’s belly were 3 considerable carps. When fit for the table it weighed 24 pounds.
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