The bunting, emberiza alba, appears in great flocks about Bradley. Linnets congregate in vast flocks, & make a kind of singing as they sit on trees. Rooks resort to their nest-trees. Hepaticas, winter-aconite, wall-flowers, daiseys, polyanths, black hellebores blow. Wheat looks well on ye downs.
The ground is much dryed: people plow comfortably. Wheat comes up well.
Nuthatch chatters. It chatters as it flies.
A wet season began about the 9th of June, which lasted thro’ haymaking, harvest, & seed-time, & did infinite mischief to the country. It appears from my Brother Barker’s instrument, with which he measures the quantity of rain, that more water fell in the county of Rutland in the year 1768 from Jan. the 1 to Dec 31 than in any other Calendar year for 30 years past; viz. 30 1/2 inches. A mean year’s rain in Rutland is about 20 3/4 inches.
Weather more like April than ye end of December. Hedge-sparrow sings.
Wheat comes up well. Lavants seem to abate.
Gnats appear much, & some flies. A dry, mild season.
French-beans are planted in the hot-house at Hartley. Pines are still cutting.
Rooks feed earnestly in ye stubbles. Red-breast sings.
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