September 3
Posted by sydney on Sep 3rd, 2008
- 1791: September 3, 1791 – Bad weather for the hops, & pickers. When the boys bring me wasps nests, my Bantam fowls fare deliciously; & when the combs are pulled to pieces, devour the young wasps intheir maggot-state with the highest glee, and delight. Any inscet-eating bird would do the same: & therefore I have often wondered that the accurate Mr Ray should call one species of buzzard Buteo apivorus, sive vespivorus, or the Honey-buzzard, because some combs of wasps happened to be found in one fo their nests. The combs were conveyed thither doubtless for the sake of the maggots or nymphs, & not for their honey; since none is to be found in the combs of wasps. Birds of prey occasionally feed on insects: thus have I seen a tame kite picking up the female ants, full of eggs, with much satisfaction.
- 1790: September 3, 1790 – Some hop-poles blown donw. Mr Prowting of Chawton begins to pick hops.
- 1789: September 3, 1789 – Mr Charles Etty returns from Canton.
- 1787: September 3, 1787 – Bror Thos. sons & daughter come from Fyfield.
- 1782: September 3, 1782 – Nep. Thomas Holt White & Henry came from Fyfield.
- 1777: September 3, 1777 – The working-wasps are very small, perhaps half starved in their larva-state for want of pears, plums, etc.
- 1776: September 3, 1776 – The season for shooting is come; but scarce any partidges are to be found: the failure of breed is remarkable. The tops of the beeches begin to be tinged with a yellow hue.
- 1775: September 3, 1775 – Great rain. Hops sadly washed. Destroyed the 26th wasps-nest, a vast colony.
- 1774: September 3, 1774 – Turned the horses into the great mead: there is good after-grass considering that the field was not mown ’til July 16.
- 1773: September 3, 1773 – Young wagtails come out. Delicate peaches & nectarines in plenty. * The beards of cone-wheat do not long preserve the grain from sparrows: for as the corn gets ripe those aritae are shaken off by the wind.
- 1772: September 3, 1772 – Some wasps appear. Museli plums become ripe.
- 1771: September 3, 1771 – Nuthatch chirps flying. Swallows feed their young perchers.
- 1769: September 3, 1769 – Winged ants migrate from their nests. Tame buzzard eats the winged ants. Swallows congregate in vast flocks.
- 1768: September 3, 1768 – Much wheat still abroad. Hop-picking becomes general: there is a vast crop.
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