The Natural History of Selborne

Musca tenax does not die as winter comes on, but lays itself up.

Tempestuous wind all night.  This storm did great mischief at sea, especially among the colliers.

Young lambs begin to fall on the sands round the forest.

Hail in the night.  Frost almost constantly succeeds hail.

Wild fowl abounds in the ponds on Woolmere forest: they lie in the great waters by day & feed in the streams & plashes by night.

Most owls seem to hoot exactly in B flat according to several pitch-pipes used in tuning of harpsichords, & sold as strictly at concert pitch.

The earth in a sad wet condition.  Wells strangely risen: one well runs over: our wells are about ten fathoms deep.

Some oaks have yet some green leaves.  Those oaks that were eaten bare by the chafers leafed about midsumr & continued unusally green late into Novemr.

The planet Mercury appears above the sun.

Linnets flock in prodigious numbers.