The Natural History of Selborne

First brood of young swallows comes forth more early than usual.  They commonly appear about the first week in July.

Young wild-ducks, or flappers are taken at Oakhanger-pond; & a small Anas olive, which seemed to me to be a young teal: turned it into James Knight’s ponds.

Some ears of wheat begin to appear.  Measles epidemic to a wonderful degree: whole families down at a time.  Several children that had been reduced by the whooping-cough dyed of them.

Sheep are shorn.

Great rains in the night.  Planted-out a bed of Savoys.  No apples or pears.

Sanicula europaea.  Lysimacha nemorum.  Bees swarm.  Pease in the fields thrive wonderfully.  Thunder.

Elder begins to blow.  When the elder blows-out the summer is at its height.

Swifts sit hard.

Rye in ears.

Here & there a single chafer this year.