The Natural History of Selborne

• 1793: May 28, 1793 – My weeding-woman swept up on the grass-plot a bushel-basket of blossoms from the white apple-tree: & yet that tree seems still covered with bloom.
• 1793: May 28, 1793 – The season is so cold, that no species of Hirundines make any advances towards building, & breeding.  Brother Benjamin & Mrs. White, & Mary White, & Miss Mary Barker came.
• 1791: May 28, 1791 – Bantam-hen brings out four chickens.
• 1789: May 28, 1789 – A fly-catcher has built a nest in the great apricot-tree, in which there is one egg.
• 1788: May 28, 1788 – The Flycatcher, which was not seen ’till the 18th, has got a nest and four eggs.
• 1784: May 28, 1784 – Timothy the tortoise has been missing for more than a week. He got out of the garden at the wicket, we suppose; & may be in the fields among the grass.  Timothy found in the little bean-field short of the pound-field.  The nightingale, fern-owl, cuckow, & grass-hopper lark may be heard at the same time in my outlet.  Gryllo-talpa curs in the moist meadows.
• 1779: May 28, 1779 – Young pheasants!
• 1777: May 28, 1777 – Clouds flye different ways. Distant thunder.
• 1774: May 28, 1774 – The crows, rooks, & daws in great numbers continue to devour the chafers on the hanger. Was it not for those birds chafers would destroy everything. Rooks, now their young are flown, do not roost on their nest-trees, but retire in the evening towards Hartley-woods. Martins roost in the their new nests as soon as ever they are large enough to contain them.
• 1773: May 28, 1773 – Apis longcornis bores its nest in the field-walks.

This brings around the second year of this blog. I can only apologize for the scatterbrained posting lately.. I need to automate this!