The Natural History of Selborne

Woodcock returns.  Papiliones and muscae abound on the asters.  Redwings return.

Young martins in their nest at Lassam.

Swallows & martins.  Gathered the first grapes: large & good.

Apples & pears large & fine.  Chilly air.  Swallows and martins.  The tempest on thursday night did considerable damage in London, & at Oxford, & in many parts of the kingdom.

Vast tempest in the night that b roke boughs from the trees, & blowed down much of the apples & pears.  Gathered some apples.

Great rain, stormy.  Some swallows & many martins under the hanger.

A miserable crop of barley round these parts.  Grapes eatable.

Began parlour-fires.  Martins abound under the hanger.  No swallows.

Few swallows about.

Ivy begins to blow: & is the last flower which supports the hymenopterous, & dipterous, Insects.  On sunny days, quite on to Novr. they swarm on the trees covered with this plant; & when they disappear probably retire under the shelter of it’s leaves, concealing themselves between it’s fibres, & the tree that it entwines.