May 21

Posted by sydney on May 20th, 2009
  • 2009: May 20 – <?php OTDList(); ?>
  • 1793: May 20, 1793 – Planted 30 cauliflowers brought from Mareland; & a row of red cabbages.  The ground is so glutted with rain that men can neither plow, nor sow, nor dig.
  • 1792: May 20, 1792 – The missel-thrush has a nest on the orchard pear-tree.  The thunder of this evening burnt the barns, & out houses of a farm between Gosport & Titchfield, & destroyed eight fine horses.
  • 1791: May 20, 1791 – The weather has been so harsh, that the swallows, & martins are not disposed to build.  Found a hen redstart dead in the walks.
  • 1789: May 20, 1789 – Martins build briskly at the Priory, & in the street.  Oaks show prodigious bloom.
  • 1788: May 20, 1788 – Fly-catcher begins to make a nest in my vine.
  • 1787: May 20, 1787 – The red-start sits, & sings on the vane in Bro: Ben’s garden upon the top of an high elm.
  • 1781: May 20, 1781 – Wheat very gross in some fields.
  • 1776: May 20, 1776 – Wheat on the downs begins to spindle for ear.
  • 1774: May 20, 1774 – Flycatcher appears: the latest summer-bird of passage.  The stoparola is most punctual to the 20th of May!!!  This bird, which comes so late, begins building immediately.
  • 1770: May 20, 1770 – Rooks have carry’d off their young from the nest-trees.

May 20

Posted by sydney on May 20th, 2009
  • 2009: May 21 – <?php OTDList(); ?>
  • 1793: May 20, 1793 – Planted 30 cauliflowers brought from Mareland; & a row of red cabbages.  The ground is so glutted with rain that men can neither plow, nor sow, nor dig.
  • 1792: May 20, 1792 – The missel-thrush has a nest on the orchard pear-tree.  The thunder of this evening burnt the barns, & out houses of a farm between Gosport & Titchfield, & destroyed eight fine horses.
  • 1791: May 20, 1791 – The weather has been so harsh, that the swallows, & martins are not disposed to build.  Found a hen redstart dead in the walks.
  • 1789: May 20, 1789 – Martins build briskly at the Priory, & in the street.  Oaks show prodigious bloom.
  • 1788: May 20, 1788 – Fly-catcher begins to make a nest in my vine.
  • 1787: May 20, 1787 – The red-start sits, & sings on the vane in Bro: Ben’s garden upon the top of an high elm.
  • 1781: May 20, 1781 – Wheat very gross in some fields.
  • 1776: May 20, 1776 – Wheat on the downs begins to spindle for ear.
  • 1774: May 20, 1774 – Flycatcher appears: the latest summer-bird of passage.  The stoparola is most punctual to the 20th of May!!!  This bird, which comes so late, begins building immediately.
  • 1770: May 20, 1770 – Rooks have carry’d off their young from the nest-trees.

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