March 18
Posted by sydney on Mar 18th, 2009
- 1791: March 18, 1791 – Snow lies deep in Newton-lane, & under hedges in the uplands. The hounds find no hare on all Selborne hill.
- 1788: March 18, 1788 – The wheat-ear, a bird so called, returns & appears on Selborne down.
- 1787: March 18, 1787 – Timothy the tortoise heaves up the earth: he lies under the wall-nut tree.
- 1780: March 18, 1780 – No turnips to be seen on the road. Green plovers on the common. The uncrested wren, the smallest species, called in this place the Chif-chaf, is very loud in the Lythe. This is the earliest summer bird of passage, & the harbinger of spring. It has only two piercing notes.
- 1775: March 18, 1775 – Adoxa moschatellina. The twigs which the rooks drop in building supply the poor with brush-wood to light their fires*. Some unhappy pairs are not permitted to finish any nest ’til the rest have compleated yir building; as soon as they get a few sticks together a party comes & demolishes the whole. As soon as rooks have finished their nests, & before they lay, the cocks begin the feed the hens, who receive their bounty with a fondling tremulous voice & fluttering wings, & all the little blandishments that are expressed by the young while in a helpless state. This gallant deportment of the males is continued thro’ the whole season of incubation. Theses birds do not copulate on trees, nor in their nests, but on the ground in open fields.
*Thus did the ravens supply the prophet with necessaries in the wilderness. - 1773: March 18, 1773 – Many sorts of insects begin to come out. Water-insects begin to move. Milvus aeruginosus? Hot in the sun.
- 1770: March 18, 1770 – Milk frozen in the pantry. Vast rock-like clouds in the horizon.
- 1769: March 18, 1769 – Planted out the cucumbers in the two-light frames: the plants are stout, but pretty long. Several fruit have bloom in the first bed.
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