The Natural History of Selborne

Mr & Mrs Clement, & three children came.

Loud thunder at Hinckley in Leicestershire, & lightening that did some damage: it happened in the midst of snow.

Mr Richardson left us.

Mr Richardson came.

Male yew trees shed their farina in clouds.

Sowed the great meadow with ashes; with 49 bushels bought of neighbours, & with 28 bushels of our own: total 77.

Our butcher begins to kill grass-lamb.

Yesterday I fixed some nuts in the chinks of some gate-posts in a part of my outlet where Nuthatches used to haunt: & to day I found that several of them were drilled, & the kernels gone.

Dug a plot of ground for the beans.

A large bank in Burrant garden covered with winter-aconites, which have been there more than 40 years.  Missel thrush sings on one of the firs.