May 10

Posted by sydney on May 10th, 2009
  • 1793: May 10, 1793 – Missel thrushes do not destroy the fruit in gardens like the other species of turdi, but feed on the berries of missel toe; & in the spring on ivy berries which then begin to ripen.  In the summer, when their young become fledge, they leave neighbourhoods, & retire to sheep walks, & wild commons.
  • 1792: May 10, 1792 – Peat cart begins.
  • 1790: May 10, 1790 – The Bantam hen hatches seven chickens.  Young red-breasts.  Made some tarts with the stalks of the leaves of the garden, or Monks rhubarb.  Only three swifts; one was found dead in the church-yard.
  • 1789: May 10, 1789 – Nep. Ben came.  The beeches on the hanger, now in full leaf, when shone down on by the sun about noon, exhibit the most lovely lights & shades, not to be expressed by the most masterly pencil.  The hops are infested by the Chrysomela oleracea, called by the country people the turnip-fly, or black dolphin, which eats holes in their leaves.  This species is– “saltatoria, femoribus posticis carssissimis”:– “chrysomelae saltatoria plantarum cotyledonibus, & benellis foliis infestae sunt.” Linn:
  • 1787: May 10, 1787 – Farmer Spencer’s orchard in fine bloom.
  • 1786: May 10, 1786 – The grass is long enough to wave before the wind.  Wheat turns some what yellow.
  • 1784: May 10, 1784 – The blackbirds & thrushes are so reduced by the severe weather, that I have seen in my out-let only one of the former, & not one of the latter; not one missle-thrush.
  • 1782: May 10, 1782 – 14 or 16 swifts.  The tortoise weighs 6 ae 11 oun. 2dr.  He weighed Spring 1781, 6:8:4 & May 1780, 6:4:0.
  • 1781: May 10, 1781 – A small sort of caterpillar annoys the goose-berry trees.
  • 1780: May 10, 1780 – Stormy all night.  Tortoise scarce moves during this wet time.  Tremella nostoc abound on the grass walks.
  • 1777: May 10, 1777 – The scenes round the village are beautifully diversifyed by the bloom of the pear-trees, plums, & cherries.  A great flood on the Thames in consequence of the rain on friday night.
  • 1776: May 10, 1776 – Apis longicornis.  This bee appears, but does not bore nests in the ground yet.
  • 1772: May 10, 1772 – Drought has lasted three weeks this day.
  • 1771: May 10, 1771 – Fly-catcher.  This bird is usually the last of the summer birds of passage.

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