April 11

Posted by sydney on Apr 11th, 2009
  • 1793: April 11, 1793 – Hoed & cleaned the alleys.
  • 1792: April 11, 1792 – Men how their wheat, which is very forward, & fine. Thomas in my absence planted beans, & sowed carrots, parsnips, cabbage-seed, onions, lettuce, & radishes.
  • 1791: April 11, 1791 – Timothy the tortoise marches forth on the grass-plot and grazes.
  • 1790: April 11, 1790 – Deeps snow at Selborne: five inches deep!  Red-starts, Fly-catchers, & Black-caps arrive.  If these little delicate beings are birds of passage (as we have reason to suppose they are, because they are never seen in winter) how could they, feeble as they seem, bear up, against such storms of snow & rain; & make their way thro’ such meteorous turbulencies, as one should suppose would embarrass & retard the most hardy & resolute of the winged nation?  Yet they keep their appointed times & seasons, & in spite of frosts & winds return to their stations periodically , as if they had met with nothing to obstruct them.  The withdrawing & appearance of the short-winged summer birds is a very puzzling circumstance in natural History!
  • 1789: April 11, 1789 – White frost, sun.  Timothy the tortoise weighs 6 ae. 14 oz.   Dug several plots of garden ground & ground digs well.
  • 1785: April 11, 1785 – Farmers wish much for rain.
  • 1783: April 11, 1783 – Several bank-martins near the great lake on this side Cobham.  Two swallows at Ripley.
  • 1782: April 11, 1782 – Forked the asparagus-beds, & planted some firs in the outlet.
  • 1781: April 11, 1781 – While two labourers were examinnig the shrubs & cavities at the S.E. end of the hanger, a house-martin came down the street & flew into a nest under Benham’s eaves.  This appearance is rather early for that bird.  Quae: whether it was disturbed by the two men?
  • 1779: April 11, 1779 – Ivy-berries are ripe: the birds eat them, & stain the walks with their dung.
  • 1778: April 11, 1778 – The plaster of my great parlor now dries very fast.
  • 1777: April 11, 1777 – Returned from London to Selborne.
  • 1775: April 11, 1775 – Two swallows.  Black snail.  Some few apricots, which escaped the frost, seem to be set.  Some peach & nect. bloom not destoryed.  The trees were struck full of ivy-boughs, which seem to have been of service against the severe cold.
  • 1774: April 11, 1774 – Shell-snails come out in troops.
  • 1773: April 11, 1773 – Goose-berry buds in leaf.  Anemone nemorosa.  Cardamine pratensis.
  • 1771: April 11, 1771 – Regulus non crist: minor.  The second spring-bird of passage.  No rain since the 16th of March: dirty lanes all dryed up.
  • 1770: April 11, 1770 – Kite sits.  Raven has young.  Swallow amidst frost & snow.

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