The Natural History of Selborne

Bror Henry & his son Gil. came.

Pleasant season: paths dry.  Men plough & sow.  Large titmouse sings his three notes.

Bullfinches eat the buds of honey-suckles.

Driving rain.  Strong flaws, & gusts with rain, hail, & thunder.

Sowed a good coat of ash on Baker’s hill, & also on the great meadow.  Bought 40 bushels of ashes of Mrs Etty, & 36 bushels of sundry others.  Sowed my own also.

The marsh-timouse begins his two harsh, sharp notes.

The hazels are finely illuminated with male bloom.  Female bloom of hazels appears, & the male-bloom sheds it’s farina.

Mr Richardson left us.

Mr Richardson, & son William came.

Snow gone.