January 23

Posted by sydney on Jan 23rd, 2009
  • 1792: January 23, 1792 – Water-cresses come in.
  • 1788: January 23, 1788 – Dan Wheeler plants his field with beans.
  • 1785: January 23, 1785 – Boys play on the Plestor at marbles, & peg-top.  Thrushes sing in the coppices.  Thrushes & blackbirds are much reduced.
  • 1780: January 23, 1780 – Vast rime on the trees all day.  The naked turnips suffer, especially where the fields incline to the sun: they are frozen, & then thawed, & so rot.  Those farmers are best off this winter, who pulled their turnips, & stacked them up in buildings, & under hedges. Lambs fall very fast.
  • 1776: January 23, 1776 – Therm: in London areas 20.  The ground covered with snow & everything frozen up.
  • 1772: January 23, 1772 – A gentle thaw all day: leaves drip all day.
  • 1770: January 23, 1770 – Scarabaeus stercorarius.  Saw a bird which I suspected to be an Aberdevine, or siskin: it was the passer torquatus, or reed sparrow.  Woodlark, great titmouse, chaffinch sing.  Blackbird whistles.  Woodlark sings in the air before daybreak.  Thrush sings.  Missel-bird sings.