April 3

Posted by sydney on Apr 3rd, 2009
  • 1793: April 3, 1793 – The small willow-wren, or chif-chaf, is heard inthe short Lythe.  This is the earliest summer bird, & is heard usually about the 20th of March.  Tho’ one of the smallest of our birds, yet it’s two notes are very loud, & piercing, so as to occasion an echo in the hanging woods.  It loves to frequent tall beeches.
  • 1792: April 3, 1792 – Some players came hither from Alton.  A hand-glass of early celeri entirely eaten-up by the Chrysomela oleracea saltatoria, vulgarly called the turnip-fly.  Sowed more.
  • 1791: April 3, 1791 – The chif-chaf, the smallest uncrested wren, is heard in the Hanger, & long Lythe.  They are usually heard about the 21 of March.  These birds, no bigger than a man’s thumb, fetch an echo out of the hanger at every note.
  • 1789: April 3, 1789 – Some wood-cocks are now found in Hartely-wood: as soon as the weather grows a little warm, they will pair, & leave us.
  • 1788: April 3, 1788 – Dogs-tooth violets blow.
  • 1787: April 3, 1787 – Cowslips blow under hedges.
  • 1786: April 3, 1786 – Earthed the cucumber-bed; plastered some fresh cow-dung under the hills.  Sowed two ounces of carrot seed in the garden-plot in the meadow.
  • 1784: April 3, 1784 – The crocus’s are full blown, & would make a fine show, if the sun would shine warm.  The ever-green-trees are not injured, as about London.  On this day a nightingale was heard at Bramshot!!
  • 1782: April 3, 1782 – The prospect at Newton was most lovely; as usually is the case after much rain etc.
  • 1781: April 3, 1781 – Timothy eats heartily.  The wry-neck appears & pipes.  Bombylius medius still: bobs his tail in flight against the grass, as if in the act of laying eggs.
  • 1773: April 3, 1773 – Apricot blossoms seem mostly cut off: peaches & nectarines are well-blown, & look well.  Sowed a box of polyanth-seed, & a bed of Celeri.
  • 1771: April 3, 1771 – Planted potatoes, & sowed carrots, parsneps, onions, coss-lettuce, leeks.
  • 1770: April 3, 1770 – Snipe pipes in the moors.  Bat appears.

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