The Natural History of Selborne

Mr & Mrs R left us.  Farmer Parsons harvests wheat.  Gleaners carry home large loads.

Gleaning begins.

Mr & Mrs Richardson & son came.

Bull-finches feed on the berries of honey-suckles.  B. Hall came.

The children in strawberry time found & destroyed several pheasant’s nests in Goleigh wood.  Nep. and Niece Ben White came from London.

When the redbreasts have finished the currans, they begin with the berries of the honey-suckles, of which they are very fond.

Several golden-crowned wrens appear in the tall fir-tree at the upper end of Baker’s hill: they were probably bred in that tree.

Vast rain, an inch & a quarter in 8 hours.

Wheat-harvest will be backward.  Mr White’s tank at Newton runds over; but Captain Dumaresque’s, which is much larger, is not full.

Rooks in vast flocks return to the deep woods at half past 8 o’clock in the evening.