July 16
Posted by sydney on Jul 16th, 2009
- 1792: July 16, 1792 – Farmer Corps brought me two eggs of a fern-owl, which he found under a bush in shrub-wood. The dam was sitting on the nest; & the eggs, by their weight, seemed to be just near hatching. These eggs were darker, & more mottled than what I have procured before.
- 1789: July 16, 1789 – Wall-cherries are excellent. Lime-trees blossom, & smell very sweet. Mr & Mrs Sam Barker, & Miss Elizabeth Barker, came from the county of Rutland.
- 1788: July 16, 1788 – Bull-finch eats the berries of the honey-suckle. Bror Tho. came.
- 1787: July 16, 1787 – The hedge-sparrow feeds the young cuckow in it’s cage.
- 1784: July 16, 1784 – Phallus impudicus, a stink-pot, comes up in Mr Burbey’s asparagus-bed. Received a Hogsh. of port-wine, imported at Southampton.
- 1782: July 16, 1782 – A covey of young partridges frequents my out-let. Hops do not cover their poles, nor throw-out any side-shoots.
- 1781: July 16, 1781 – Wheat-harvest begins at Headley.
- 1776: July 16, 1776 – Bees, when a shower approaches, hurry home. One hive of bees does not swarm; the bees lie in clusters at the mouth of the hive.
- 1775: July 16, 1775 – Some of the forwardest birds of some broods of martins are out, the more backward remain in the nest.
- 1774: July 16, 1774 – Swallows strike at owls, & magpies. Cut part of my great mead: grass over-ripe.
- 1771: July 16, 1771 – Sultry, sunny day. Good dew. Gardens suffer from want of moisture. Dark clouds round the horizon.
- 1769: July 16, 1769 – Great showers in sight to the E. & N.E. The ground is very much burnt up, no rain having fallen, very small showers excepted, since June 27.
- 1768: July 16, 1768 – Grasshopper-lark sings at Bradley.