March 6
Posted by sydney on Mar 6th, 2009
- 1793: March 6, 1793 – Dogs-tooth violets blow. Wag-tails on the grass-plots: they were here all this mild winter. Goldfinches are not paired.
- 1790: March 6, 1790 – A couple & an half of woodcocks, & several pheasants were seen in Hartely-wood.
- 1789: March 6, 1789 – Mr Richardson came.
- 1786: March 6, 1786 – The birds are so distressed, that ring-doves resort to my garden to crop the leaves of the bore-cole! blackbirds come down to the scullery door. Snow little abated.
- 1783: March 6, 1783 – Flood at Gracious street. All the fields full of water. Snow much gone. The barometer strangely low! A slight shock of an earthquake at this time in Paris.
- 1782: March 6, 1782 – Almond tree in bloom.
- 1780: March 6, 1780 – Sky-larks mount & sing.
- 1779: March 6, 1779 – Radishes pulled in the cold ground.
- 1773: March 6, 1773 – Mild, still, pleasant weather.
- 1770: March 6, 1770 – Taxus baccata. Marsh titmouse, parus palustirs, chirps. This species is not so common as the great ox-eye or the blue nun. It frequents hedges & bushes.
- 1769: March 6, 1769 – The cock swan at two year’s old. “Between his white wings, mantling proudly, rows.”
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