April 7, 1772
Termes pulsatorium raps. Death-watch vulg.
April 6, 1772
Wood lark sits. Hirundo domestica! Swallow comes early. Cock snipe pipes & hums in the air. Is the latter sound ventriloquous, or from the rapid motion of the wings? The bird always descends when that noise is made, & the wings are violently agitated.
April 5, 1772
Uncrested wren chirps. Barometer falls apace. Ants appear.
April 4, 1772
Mackaral sky, wheel round the sun. Clouds in horizon.
March 30, 1772
Merula torquata on it’s spring visit. Thunder. One cock ring-ouzel appears on Nore-hill on it’s spring visit, but earlier than common.
March 26, 1772
Planted-out some rudiments of stout cucumr plants into the bearing beds: rudiments of fruit show.
March 23, 1772
Tussilago farfara. Considerable mischief was done by this storm near & in London.
March 22, 1772
Least uncrest. wren appears: first summer bird of passage.
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