September 9
Posted by sydney on Sep 9th, 2008
- 1792: September 9, 1792 – As most of the second brood of Hirundines are now out, the young on fine days congregate in considerable numbers on the church & tower: & it is remarkable that tho’ the generality is on the battlements & roof, yet many hang or cling for some time by their claws against the surface of the walls in a manner not practiced at any other time of their remaining with us. By far the greater number of these amusing birds are house-martins, not swallows, which congregate on trees. A writer in the Gent. Mag. supposes that the chilly mornings & evenings, at the decline of the year, begin to influence the feelings of the young broods; & that they cluster thus in the hot sunshine to prevent their blood from being benumbed, & themselves from being reduced to a state of untimely torpidity.
- 1791: September 9, 1791 – Gathered in the white apples, a very fine crop of large fine fruit, consisting of many bushels.
- 1790: September 9, 1790 – Two stone-curlews in a fallow near Southington. A fern-owl flies over my house.
- 1789: September 9, 1789 – Hops are not large. The fly-catchers, which abounded in my outlet, seem to have withdrawn themselves. Some grapes begin turn colour. Men bind wheat. Sweet harvest, & hop-picking weather. Hirundines congregate on barns, & trees, & on the tower. The hops are smaller than they were last year. There is fine clover in many fields.
- 1788: September 9, 1788 – On the brow of the cliff that looks down on Candover’s farm-house my Brother found a lime-tree which had been cut down to a stool, when the coppice was cut formerly. Was it a wild tree or planted?
- 1783: September 9, 1783 – Mr. Etty’s well is still foul. Began to light fires in the parlor. Brother Thomas, & Molly White came.
- 1781: September 9, 1781 – Red-breasts whistle agreeably on the tops of hop-poles, &c., but are prognostic of autumn. Young fern-owl.
- 1780: September 9, 1780 – My kindey-beans are much withered for want of rain: cucumbers bear: peaches begin to come: endives large, & tyed-up. Gathered-in the Burgamot-pears; they easily part from their stems. Hop-picking partly ended. Myriads of flying ants, of the small pale, yellow sort, fly from their nests & fill the air.
- 1779: September 9, 1779 – The greens of the turneps in light shallow land are quite withered away for want of moisture.
- 1775: September 9, 1775 – Wasps somewhat abated. The day & night insects occupy the annuals alternatelly: the papilios, muscae, & apes are succeeded at the close of the day by phalanae, earwigs, woodlice, etc. My tallest beech measures in girth at least three feet from the ground six feet & four inches. It grows at the S.E. end of Sparrow’s hanger, & appears to be upwards of 70 feet high.
- 1774: September 9, 1774 – Mushrooms. Hops distempered.
- 1773: September 9, 1773 – Little barley housed.
- 1771: September 9, 1771 – Missel-thrushes flock.
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