May 5, 1789
Posted by sydney on May 5th, 1789
The Fern-owl, or Goat-sucker chatters in the hanger This curious bird is never heard till warm weather comes: it is the latest summer bird except the fly-catcher.
May 4, 1789
Posted by sydney on May 4th, 1789
Beat the grass-banks in the garden. Put up the urns. Martins come into old nests. Bat out. Nightingale in my out-let. Snails come out.
May 2, 1789
Posted by sydney on May 2nd, 1789
The long frost of last winter has proved very destructive to pond-fish the kingdom over, except in those pools & lakes thro’ which passed a constant current of water: nor did the expedient of breaking holes in the ice avail. Mr Barker, who has been writing an account of the late frost, thinks that it did mischief. A current of water introduces a constant current of fresh air, which refreshes continually the air of the pools & ponds, & renders it fit for respiration.
April 30, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 30th, 1789
Brother Thomas White, & daughter, & little Tom came.
April 29, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 29th, 1789
Scarce a hirundo has been seen about this village.
April 28, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 28th, 1789
Timothy the tortoise beings to eat dandelion.
April 27, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 27th, 1789
Showers, windy. One beech in the hanger shows some foliage.
April 26, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 26th, 1789
This morning I saw a certificate from the town of Wymburn Mistner in the country of Dorset to the parish of Selborne, acknowledging William Dewye to be parishioner of the said town. This paper is dated Apr. 20, 1729: so that Will: Dewye, & wife, both still living, have been certificate people here exactly 60 years.
April 23, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 23rd, 1789
Swallows & martins do not yet frequent houses. Women hoe wheat.
April 22, 1789
Posted by sydney on Apr 22nd, 1789
Young broods of goslings. Wood-sorrel, & anemony blow. The cuckoo cries along the hanger. Wheat thrives.
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