The Natural History of Selborne

Young crickets of all sizes in my kitchen-chimney.

Swans egg pears continue good.

Some few flights of wild fowl come to Wolmer-pond; but do not stay.

Some sportsmen beat the bogs of Wolmer-forest carefully: saw but three brace of snipes.

Mem: to send Thomas on this day to Mr Collins collector of the excise.  Bror Thomas White, & Tho: Holt White left us.  Mrs & Miss Etty came home.

Grapes are at an end.

There was about this time, as the newspapers say, a vast flight of wood-cocks in Cornwall.

We have had this week in Hartley-wood, & those parts a considerable flight of wood-cocks: while in the upland coverts few or none were found.

Mosses begin to grow, & look vivid; & will begin to blow in a few weeks.

Partridges associate in vast coveys.