May 13

Posted by sydney on May 13th, 2009
  • 1793: May 13, 1793 – Two nightingales sing in my outlet.  Foliage of trees expands very fast.  Peat begins to be brought in: it is in good condition.  H. martins build.  The old Bantam hen began to sit in the barn on eleven eggs.  The fern-owl, or churn-owl returns, & chatters in the hanger.
  • 1792: May 13, 1792 – Mrs Ben White came.
  • 1791: May 13, 1791 – Ashen shoots injured by the late frosts, & kidney-beans & potatoe-sprouts killed.
  • 1790: May 13, 1790 – Bro. Tho. came from London.
  • 1789: May 13, 1789 – Nep Ben & wife left us.  Great tempest at Winchester.
  • 1787: May 13, 1787 – Ice at Nore-hill.  Tulips make a show.
  • 1786: May 13, 1786 – The wind beats the buds off the trees, & blows the cabbages out of the ground.  The planet Venus appears.  On this day my niece Clement was brought to bed of her fifth child, a boy, who makes my 44th nephew, & niece, all now living.
  • 1785: May 13, 1785 – The country strangely burnt-up.
  • 1784: May 13, 1784 – Cut the first bundle of asparagus.
  • 1782: May 13, 1782 – Fly-catcher appears.  When this bird is seen the naturalist hopes the summer is established.
  • 1781: May 13, 1781 – The rain last night broke the stems of several of the tulips, which are in full bloom.  The rain from the S.
  • 1780: May 13, 1780 – Vines are backward in their shoots, but show rudiments of fruit.  The cores of the spruce-firs, produced last year, now fall.  After a fast of 7, or 8 months, the tortoise which in Oct. 1779 weighted six pounds 9 oun: & 1/2 averdupoise, weighs now only 6 pounds 4 ounces.  Timothy began to break his fast May 17 on the globe-thistle, & American willow-herb; his favourite food is lettuce, & dandelion, cucumber, & kidney-beans.
  • 1775: May 13, 1775 – Papilio Atalanta.  This is an autumnal fly, & therefore must appear at this season by accident.  Fine rains about the kingdom; but little to the advantage of our district.  At Lyndon in Rutland, the first swallow was seen April 14: first swift April 29: first H. martin May 6.
  • 1774: May 13, 1774 – Crows bring out their young in troops.  Horses begin to lie abroad.
  • 1772: May 13, 1772 – Musca vomitoria.  Maon’s morter frozen.  Wheat looks yellow.  Fruit-trees of all sorts blow much.  Chill air.
  • 1771: May 13, 1771 – Swallows & martins collect dirt for building.  Regulus non crist: major cantat voce stridula locustae.  Usually a late bird of passage.  The horizon looks dark & louring.
  • 1770: May 13, 1770 – Fly-catcher, Stoparola, of Brit: zool: appears.  Sedge-bird, Passer arundinaceus minor, Sedge-bird of Brit: zool sings.

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