The Natural History of Selborne

Trees carry their leaves well for the season.

Ice.  Cobwebs float in the air & cover the ground.

A young swallow appears.

Turdus iliacus.  Rain all night.

Cornix cinerea.  Swallows.  Some Martins at Findon.  Vast floods on the Sussex rivers: the meadows all under water.  Vast flood at Houghton.  Martins, crossbeaks.  The Sussex-rivers are very liable to floods, which occasion great loss & inconvenience to the Farmers.  The cattle from this time must be taken into the yards to live on straw, because the meads, which would have maintained them many weeks longer, are all under water.  The standing grass is often flooded in summer.  They call their meads by the river-sides, brooks.

Several very young nestling swallows with square tails.  Oestrus curvicauda still appears.  Apples gathering.  Grapes begin to be eatable.

Fog on the hills.

Harvest not finished.  Not one wasp or hornet.

Crossbills, loxiae curvirostrae among Mrs Snooke’s Scotch pines.

Ring-ouzels near Ringmer.  Swallows abound.