The Natural History of Selborne

Great showers, & hail all around.  Showers of hail at a distance look of a silvery colour.  Rain-bow.  The hanger is bursting into leaf every hour.  A progress in the foliage may be discerned every morning, & again every evening.

Cut two fine cucumbers; & began to eat the brown lettuces under the fruit-wall, where they stood the winter.  Lettuce well-loaved, & very fine.

Made the annual-bed for a large three-light frame with 3 loads of dung.

White frost, sun, cold air.

Bombylius minor appears.

Red-breasts have young.

Farmer Knight brought me 1/2 a ton of good meadow-hay.

My hay is out.  Many cock-pheasants are heard to crow on Wick-hill farm. We have a large stock of partridges left to breed-round the parish.

Grass lamb.  Timothy, if you offer him some poppy leaves, will eat a little; but does not seek for food.

The voice of the cuckow is heard in the hanger.