August 10
Posted by sydney on Aug 10th, 2008
- 1790: August 10, 1790 – A labourer has mown out in the precincts of Hartley-wood, during the course of this summer, as many pheasant’s nests as contained 60 eggs! Bro. Thomas White came.
- 1789: August 10, 1789 – Monotropa Hypopithys abounds in the hanger beyond Maiden dance, opposite to coney-croft hanger.
- 1787: August 10, 1787 – When the redbreasts have finished the currans, they begin with the berries of the honey-suckles, of which they are very fond.
- 1785: August 10, 1785 – Men bind their wheat as fast as they reap it. Hops look black.
- 1784: August 10, 1784 – Mr & Mrs Mulso, &c., left us.
- 1780: August 10, 1780 – Sowed a crop of spinage for the winter, and spring, & trod the seed well in.
- 1779: August 10, 1779 – Wheat lies in a bad way. Peaches, & plums rot. Wheat grows. Flying ants swarm in millions. Inches of rain 3.
- 1776: August 10, 1776 – Hay not housed at Meonstoke & Warnford.
- 1774: August 10, 1774 – No swifts: are seen no more with us.
- 1773: August 10, 1773 – Most sultry night.
- 1772: August 10, 1772 – An autumnal coolness begins to take place, morning and evening.
- 1771: August 10, 1771 – Flying ants, male & female.
- 1769: August 10, 1769 – Mr Sheffield of Worcester Coll. went in to Wolmer-forest & procured me a green sand-piper, Tringa Aldrov; Tringa ochropus Lin. They were in pairs & had been seen about by many people on the streams, & banks of the ponds.
- 1768: August 10, 1768 – Young pheasants are flyers. White butter-flies gather in flocks on the mud of puddles.
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