October 6
Posted by sydney on Oct 6th, 2008
- 1792: October 6, 1792 – Many Hirundines: several very young swallows on the thatch of the cottage near the pound. The evening is uncommonly dark.
- 1791: October 6, 1791 – Received a bag of hops from Mr. Hale, weight 61 pounds.
- 1789: October 6, 1789 – Grapes do not ripen: they are as backward as in the bad summer of 1782: the crop is large.
- 1788: October 6, 1788 – Gathered-in some royal russets, very fine.
- 1787: October 6, 1787 – My well is very low; & the stream from Gracious street almost dry.
- 1785: October 6, 1785 – Gathered-in the swans-egg pears, a bushel; more to be gathered.
- 1784: October 7, 1784 – Mr Harry White, & Lucy left us.
- 1784: October 6, 1784 – A vast flock of ravens over the hanger: more than sixty!
- 1782: October 6, 1782 – Wood-cock returns, & is seen in the Hanger. Young martins in the nest at little World-ham; probably Ward-le-ham.
- 1781: October 6, 1781 – Several herons at Wolmer-pond, & a tringa octrophus, or white-rumped sand-piper, Cranmer-pond in Wolmer-forest is quite dry.
- 1776: October 6, 1776 – Numbers of swallows & martins playing about at Faringdon, & settling on the trees. If hirundines hide in rocks & caverns, how do they, while torpid, avoid being eaten by weasels & other vermin?
- 1775: October 6, 1775 – Just before it was dark a flight of about 12 swallows darted along over my House towards the hill: they seemed as if they settled in the hanger. Now several house-martins appear about the hanger.
* An oak in Newton-lane near the Cross, by the condensation of the fogs on it’s leaves has dripped such quantities for some nights past, that the water stands in puddles, & runs down the ruts. Why this tree should drip so much more than it’s neighbours is not easy to say. No doubt this is one of the means by which small upland ponds are still supported with water in the longest droughts; & the reason why they are never dry. What methods of supply upland ponds enjoy, where no trees over-hang, may not be so easy to determine. Perhaps their cool surfaces may attract a fund from the air when it is loaded with fogs & vapors, especially in the night-time. That they have some never-failing stock at hand to counterbalance evaporation & the waste by cattle, is notorious to the meanest observer. For on the chalks no springs are ever seen on the tops or sides of hills, but in the bottoms alone. - 1770: October 6, 1770 – Harvest not finished. Not one wasp or hornet.
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