March 1
Posted by sydney on Mar 1st, 2009
- 1792: March 1, 1792 – The laurustines, & the young shoots of the honey-suckles are not hurt by the late frosts.
- 1785: March 1, 1785 – Carted six loads of hot dung for the cucumber-bed.
- 1784: March 1, 1784 – Brother Tho found a grass-hopper lark dead in his out-let: it seemed to be starved. I was not aware that they were about in the winter.
- 1772: March 1, 1772 – An ash-coloured butcher-bird was shot this winter in Rotherfield Park: lanius seu collurio cintereus major: the only one I ever heard of in these parts.
- 1770: March 1, 1770 – Calculus aegagropila was found in the stomach of a fat ox. It was black, shining, & round, & about the size of a large Sevil-orange. See Syst:Nat: vol: 4: p:176: n: 5 . Pheasant crows.
- 1769: March 1, 1769 – Sheep rot in a most terrible manner in the low grounds.
Notes:
The ‘grasshopper-lark’ or Grasshopper warbler is a summer migrant (now red-listed); the dead specimen may have been either a very early migrant or a stray from the year before. “Syst: Nat:” is Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae; a ‘calculus’ is a hard object formed in an animal’s stomach; Harry Potter fans might recognize this as a bezoar.
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