The Natural History of Selborne

Ricked my St foin in good order.  The ears of wheat in general are very long.  Wheat blows still.

Showers about.  Dryed & cocked my st. foin.

Wheat that was lodged rises again.

Glow-worms abound.  Phallus stinks in the hedges.

Lanius minor ruffus, red-backed butcher-bird, shot near the village.  It’s gizzard was full of the legs & parts of beetles.

Rudiments of wasps’ nests are found.  No chaffers, or tree beetles, appear yet.  The wasps’ nest contained eleven eggs in eleven cells.

Young wood-larks come forth.  My apple trees are but poorly blown.

Returned to Selborne.  Melon-fruit in bloom.  A brace of sand-pipers (tringa minor) at James Knight’s ponds.

Green gooseberries.

The grass-hopper lark chirps concealed at the bottom of hedges.