July 20
Posted by sydney on Jul 20th, 2009
- 1792: July 20, 1792 – Simeon Etty brought me two eggs of a Razor-bill from the cliffs of the Isle of Wight: they are large, & long, & very blunt at the big end, & very sharp & peaked at the small. The eggs of these birds are, as Ray justly remarks, “in omnibus hujus beneris majora quam pro corporis mole.” One of these eggs is of a pale green, the other more white; both are marked & dotted irregularly with chcolate-coloured spots. Razor-bills lay but one egg, except the first is taken away, & then a second, & on to a third. By their weight these eggs seem to have been sat on, & to contain young ones.
- 1791: July 20, 1791 – Mr. Budd’s annuals very fine. Ground well moistened: after-grass grows.
- 1789: July 20, 1789 – Began to cut my hay, a vast burden, but over-ripe.
- 1784: July 20, 1784 – Bro. Henry and his son Sam came. Saw an old swift feed it’s young in the air: a circumstance which I could never discover before.
- 1778: July 20, 1778 – Much thunder. Some people in the village were struck down by the storm, but not hurt. The stroke seemed to them like a violent push or shove. The ground is well-soaked. Wheat much lodged. Frogs migrate from the ponds.
- 1772: July 20, 1772 – Vast showers about to the S.E. & N.W. Dust hardly laid in the roads.
- 1770: July 20, 1770 – Spread the hay. Stopped & tacked ye vines. Cut the tall hedges.
- 1768: July 20, 1768 – Vast aurora borealis. The white owl has young. It brings a mouse to its nest about every five minutes beginning at sunset. Hay in tollerable order. Cut my little mead.
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