May 1

Posted by sydney on May 1st, 2009

treecreeper

Certhia familiaris, the common treecreeper

  • 1792: May 1, 1792 – Cut a good mess of asparagus.
  • 1791: May 1, 1791 – A prodigious bloom of apple trees along the road.
  • 1788: May 1, 1788 – Mrs Ben White was brought to bed of a boy, who encreases my nephews, & nieces to the number of 52.  Bror Thos Wh. tulips from South Lambeth make a gaudy appearance.  The bloom of cherries, pears, & apples is great; of plums, bullace, sloes, little.  Currans promise for much fruit, gooseberries for little.  Peaches & nectarines are set: cherries begin to eat.
  • 1787: May 1, 1787 – Young brown owls.
  • 1786: May 1, 1786 – Bombylius minor appears.
  • 1785: May 1, 1785 – The dust on the roads insufferable!  Saw one swift.  Two house-martins in Fleet street.
  • 1784: May 1, 1784 – Men pole hops; sow barley, & sow clover in wheat.  Saw a cock white-throat.
  • 1783: May 1, 1783 – Peat is brought in from the forest.  Cut some asparagus.
  • 1782: May 1, 1782 – One beech in the Lith, which is always forward, in full leaf.  The beeches in the hanger are naked, but the buds are opening.  Nightingale sings in my fields; but no cuckow is heard.  Sowed the dug plot in the great mead with carrots.
  • 1779: May 1, 1779 – A pair of Creepers (Certhia) build at one end of the parsonage-house at Greatham, behind some loose plaster.  It is very amusing to see them run creeping up the walls with the agility of a mouse.  They take great delight in climbing up steep surfaces, & support their progress with their tails, which are long, & stiff, & inlcined downwards.
  • 1776: April 1, 1776 – The grass still crips with white frost.  Tulips hang their heads in the morning, being pricked with the frost.
  • 1775: May 1, 1775 – Sowed two boxes of polyanth-seed from London.  Sowed a large bed of carrots, which could not be sowed before on account of the long dry season.  Ground still dry & harsh.  Some oaks & ashes half in leaf.  Trees more than a fortnight forwards than they have been for some years past.
  • 1772: May 1, 1772 – Some few beeches in the Hanger shew a small tinge of verdure.
  • 1771: May 1, 1771 – Plenty of rain in the night.  Trees as bare as at Xmass.
  • 1769: May 1, 1769 – Received from Selborne 12 brace of fair cucumbers.

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