February 7
Posted by sydney on Feb 7th, 2009
- 1791: February 7, 1791 – Bull-finches make sad havoc among the buds of my cherry, & apricot trees they also destroy the buds of the goos-berries, & honey-suckles! [Later note:] These birds were not observed at the time, nor do they seem to abound. It appeared afterward, that this damage was done by a flight of gross-beaks.
- 1786: February 7, 1786 – Driving rain. Strong flaws, & gusts with rain, hail, & thunder.
- 1783: February 7, 1783 – Much rain in the night. Flood at Gracious street.
- 1779: February 7, 1779 – Lambs come very fast. Bats appear. Field-pease are sowing.
- 1776: February 7, 1776 – Great rains, & vast floods thro’ the month of February.
- 1774: February 7, 1774 – Continual vicissitudes from frost to rain. Land-floods advance.
- 1772: February 7, 1772 – Cole-mouse picks bones in the yard. The snow has lain on the ground this evening just 21 days; a long period for England!
- 1770: February 7, 1770 – Most vehement wind, with snow!!! Wind blows off tiles & thatch.
- 1769: February 7, 1769 – Helleborus viridis, planted in my orchard from the stony-lane, begins to spring. It rises from the earth with it’s flower-buds formed: & differs from Helleborus foetidus, that it dies down to the ground in the autumn, while that maintains a large handsome plant all winter.
We don’t do a whole lot of announcements on this blog, as there isn’t really much news on the Gilbert White front. Of great interest to UK White fans though: on March 8 at the Jermyn Street Theater, Ronnie Davidson-Houston, editor of the Thames and Huston edition of The Illustrated Natural History of Selborne and occasional consultant on this blog, is reprising his one-man show on Gilbert White and his works. Get your tickets early as it sold out last year!
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