October 10, 1776
Posted by sydney on Oct 10th, 1776
Grey, windy, soft & agreeable. Now my grapes are delicate notwithstanding the summer was so wet & shady.
October 7, 1776
Posted by sydney on Oct 7th, 1776
Gathered some keeping-apples. The intercourse between tups and ewes seems pretty well over. Ewes go, I think, 22 weeks.
October 6, 1776
Posted by sydney on Oct 6th, 1776
Numbers of swallows & martins playing about at Faringdon, & settling on the trees. If hirundines hide in rocks & caverns, how do they, while torpid, avoid being eaten by weasels & other vermin?
October 5, 1776
Posted by sydney on Oct 5th, 1776
Black snails are more sluggish than in the summer; but in sight all day at this season of the year. Saw one hornet.
October 3, 1776
Posted by sydney on Oct 3rd, 1776
Beautiful wheat season for the wet fallows. The buzzard is a dastardly bird, & beaten not only by the raven, but even by the carrion-crow. Gathered baking-pears.
October 1, 1776
Posted by sydney on Oct 1st, 1776
Swallows & martins, before they withdraw, not only forsake houses, but do not frequent the villages at all: so that their intercourse with houses is only for the sake of breeding.
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